makes
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, makes sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2kames, samek
- One letter away
- 23bakes, cakes
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and makes is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is make — a recognizable kind. 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 m ey1 k s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
40 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- aches
- bakes
- brakes
- breaks
- cakes
- earthquakes
- fakes
- flakes
- handshakes
- headaches
- heartbreaks
- keepsakes
- lakes
- mistakes
- namesakes
- outbreaks
- overtakes
- pancakes
- quakes
- rakes
- rattlesnakes
- sakes
- shakes
- snakes
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: kames, samek.
One letter away
- bakes
- cakes
- fakes
- lakes
- maces
- maker
- males
- manes
- mares
- mates
- mazes
- mikes
- rakes
- sakes
- takes
- wakes
- hakes
- mages
- maxes
- jakes
- mabes
- makos
- mokes
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.