waves
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, waves sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 22caves, eaves
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and waves is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is wave — one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water). 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 w ey1 v z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
19 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- behaves
- braves
- caves
- craves
- graves
- microwaves
- misbehaves
- paves
- raves
- saves
- shaves
- slaves
- staves
- waives
- aftershaves
- airwaves
- architraves
- enclaves
- knaves
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- caves
- eaves
- haves
- paves
- raves
- saves
- wades
- wages
- wakes
- wanes
- waved
- waver
- waxes
- wives
- faves
- laves
- naves
- wales
- wares
- wames
- wavey
- oaves
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.