back
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, back sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 18balk, bank
What it means
- adjectiverelated to or located at the back
- adjectivelocated at or near the back of an animal
- adjectiveof an earlier date
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b ae1 k — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
109 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- aback
- almanac
- attack
- backpack
- backtrack
- black
- blackjack
- cardiac
- clack
- cognac
- comeback
- counterattack
- crack
- cutback
- drawback
- feedback
- flak
- flapjack
- flashback
- greenback
- hack
- hardback
- haystack
- hijack
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.