tapes
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, tapes sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 6paste, pates
- One letter away
- 20capes, gapes
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and tapes is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is tap — the sound made by a gentle blow. 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 t ey1 p s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
13 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
6 other words use exactly these letters: paste, pates, spate, septa, peats, tepas.
One letter away
- capes
- gapes
- napes
- rapes
- takes
- tales
- tames
- taped
- taper
- taxes
- types
- japes
- tapas
- tares
- tabes
- taces
- tajes
- tapis
- topes
- tates
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.