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.
📰 This Word in the News:
U. of Michigan Leaders Hit the Brakes on Pass/Fail Plan
Sep 29, 2026 The Chronicle of Higher Education
Sep 29, 2026 The Chronicle of Higher Education
Lawmakers urge Amazon to put the brakes on its Westborough drone-delivery proposal
Sep 29, 2026 yahoo.com
Sep 29, 2026 yahoo.com
Illinois diocese puts brakes on eulogies and wakes in church before funeral Mass
Sep 8, 2026 OSV News
Sep 8, 2026 OSV News