votes
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, votes sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1stove
- One letter away
- 10dotes, notes
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and votes is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is vote — a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative. 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 v ow1 t s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
41 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- anecdotes
- banknotes
- boats
- coats
- connotes
- denotes
- devotes
- floats
- footnotes
- gloats
- goats
- houseboats
- keynotes
- lifeboats
- misquotes
- moats
- notes
- overcoats
- petticoats
- promotes
- quotes
- raincoats
- rowboats
- sailboats
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: stove.
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.