waxes
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, waxes sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 18taxes, wades
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and waxes is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is wax — any of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin; they are solid at normal temperatures and insoluble in 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 ae1 k s ih0 z — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
3 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- relaxes
- faxes
- surtaxes
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
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.