brakes
Definitions
Noun
- A braking device consisting of a combination of interacting parts that work to slow a motor vehicle
- A restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
- Any of various ferns of the genus pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
- Large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
- An area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
- Anything that slows or hinders a process
Verb
- Stop travelling by applying a brake
- Cause to stop by applying the brakes
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Sounds Like
Words that sound like the term "brakes".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | banks | 1 | 37 |
| 2 | blocks | 1 | 37 |
| 3 | bunks | 1 | 17 |
| 4 | brooks | 1 | 16 |
| 5 | breaks | 1 | 12 |
| 6 | black's | 1 | 6 |
| 7 | bricks | 1 | 6 |
| 8 | blacks | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | blokes | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | bank's | 1 | 0 |
| 11 | bankes | 1 | 0 |
| 12 | banks' | 1 | 0 |
| 13 | barkes | 1 | 0 |
| 14 | barks | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | basks | 1 | 0 |
| 16 | basques | 1 | 0 |
| 17 | blacks' | 1 | 0 |
| 18 | blake's | 1 | 0 |
| 19 | blakes | 1 | 0 |
| 20 | blech's | 1 | 0 |
| 21 | bloc's | 1 | 0 |
| 22 | bloch's | 1 | 0 |
| 23 | block's | 1 | 0 |
| 24 | blocs | 1 | 0 |
| 25 | bork's | 1 | 0 |
| 26 | brix | 1 | 0 |
| 27 | brock's | 1 | 0 |
| 28 | brook's | 1 | 0 |
| 29 | brooke's | 1 | 0 |
| 30 | brookes | 1 | 0 |
| 31 | brooks' | 1 | 0 |
| 32 | brox | 1 | 0 |
| 33 | bruck's | 1 | 0 |
| 34 | brucks | 1 | 0 |
| 35 | ebanks | 2 | 0 |
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Term
Definitions: 8
Fragments: 1
Sound Alikes: 35
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 0
Words that Precede: 0
Statistically Associated: 0
Consonant Matches: 0
Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.
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