tabes
/ˈteɪbiːz/noun
tabes is spelled T-A-B-E-S: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 138,319th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tabes means “A kind of slow bodily wasting or emaciating disease, often accompanying a chronic disease” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in tabes?
| Letters | 5: T-A-B-E-S |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 21 million words; the 138,319th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is tabes?
Tabes appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 138,319th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce tabes?
- /ˈteɪbiːz/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-tabes.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with tabes?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as tabes.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: beast, beats, baste.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does tabes mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A kind of slow bodily wasting or emaciating disease, often accompanying a chronic disease.
- 2
Tabes dorsalis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does tabes come from?
Borrowed from Latin tābēs.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).