cask

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, cask sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

1sack

One letter away

10bask, calk

• nounthe quantity a cask will hold
• nouna cylindrical container that holds liquids

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k ae1 s k — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

7 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• ask
• bask
• flask
• mask
• task
• unmask
• basque

One other word use exactly these letters: sack.

The whole set on one page.

• bask
• calk
• case
• cash
• cast
• mask
• task
• casa
• cark
• cusk

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts C16,229
• Starts CA3,002
• Ends K
• 4 letters starting C

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.