barks
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, barks sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1kbars
- One letter away
- 21backs, balks
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and barks is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is bark — tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b aa1 r k s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
24 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- arcs
- birthmarks
- earmarks
- embarks
- hallmarks
- harks
- landmarks
- larks
- marks
- monarchs
- parks
- patriarchs
- remarks
- sharks
- sparks
- trademarks
- watermarks
- aardvarks
- ballparks
- benchmarks
- marques
- oligarchs
- quarks
- skylarks
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: kbars.
One letter away
- backs
- balks
- banks
- barbs
- bards
- bares
- barns
- basks
- harks
- larks
- marks
- parks
- barfs
- barky
- barms
- birks
- carks
- darks
- narks
- sarks
- warks
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 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.