book
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, book sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1kobo
- One letter away
- 18boom, boon
What it means
- nouna written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together)
- nounphysical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together
- nouna compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b uh1 k — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
50 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- brook
- cook
- cookbook
- crook
- forsook
- guidebook
- handbook
- hook
- look
- matchbook
- mistook
- nook
- notebook
- outlook
- overlook
- overtook
- passbook
- pocketbook
- rook
- scrapbook
- shook
- textbook
- took
- undertook
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: kobo.
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.