tomes
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, tomes sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3motes, smote
- One letter away
- 15comes, domes
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and tomes is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is tom — male cat. 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 ow1 m z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
17 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- chromosomes
- combs
- domes
- foams
- gnomes
- homes
- ohms
- roams
- syndromes
- aerodromes
- biomes
- catacombs
- rhizomes
- velodromes
- combes
- cyclostomes
- liposomes
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: motes, smote, moste.
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.