1 | noun | installation from which a military force initiates operations 2 | noun | lowest support of a structure 3 | noun | a place that the runner must touch before scoring 4 | noun | the bottom or lowest part 5 | noun | (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment 6 | noun | a lower limit 7 | noun | the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained 8 | noun | a support or foundation (29 meanings)

b'eys (IPA: bˈeɪs)

base (no hyphenation) (4 letters | 1 syllable)

1325 (High Middle ages) (700 years ago)

1393 (Late Middle ages) (632 years ago)

Old French | Latin | Modern Greek

written: 1109th most common (1 in 10870 words) ( > 99% noun | 0% verb | 0% adjective)

spoken: 1381st most common (1 in 23810 words)

(includes some inflected forms)

bases | baser | basest | based | basing

base of operations | foot | foundation | fundament | groundwork | substructure | understructure | bag | hull | floor | basis | cornerstone | pedestal | stand | nucleotide | ... (total: 32)

air base | air station | army base | firebase | navy base | rocket base | bed | raft foundation | first base | home | home base | home plate | plate | second base | third | ... (total: 49)

military installation | support | baseball equipment | part | piece | bottom | control | assumption | supposal | supposition | ester | chemical compound | compound | flank | component | ... (total: 34)

apace | brace | case | chase | dace | debase | deface | disgrace | displace | efface | embrace | encase | erase | face | glace | ... (total: 29) (based on typical American pronunciation)

bass

abase | babe | bade | bake | bale | bane | bare | bash | bask | bass | bast | baste | bate | blase | case | Case | ease | lase | vase (total: 19)

(none among common words)

acid-base balance | acid-base equilibrium | acid-base indicator | base-forming | base hit | base metal | base of operations | base on balls | base rate | base runner | ... (total: 24)