knees
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, knees sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3keens, skene
- One letter away
- 2kneed, kneel
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and knees is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is knee — hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as n iy1 z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
152 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abilities
- absentees
- agrees
- analyses
- antifreeze
- apologies
- apostrophes
- appease
- appendices
- appointees
- bees
- binaries
- breeze
- bumblebees
- cheese
- companies
- decrees
- degrees
- devotees
- diocese
- dioceses
- disagrees
- disease
- displease
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: keens, skene, skeen.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.
Lists it belongs to
Tier: everyday. The tiers come from the English Speller Database and rank by list size, not by how often a word is used — see where the words come from.