coax
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, coax sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1coxa
- One letter away
- 3coal, coat
What it means
- nouna transmission line for high-frequency signals
- verbinfluence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k ow1 k s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
21 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- artichokes
- chokes
- cokes
- evokes
- folks
- hoax
- invokes
- jokes
- keystrokes
- oaks
- pokes
- provokes
- smokes
- soaks
- spokes
- stokes
- strokes
- yokes
- yolks
- blokes
- mokes
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: coxa.
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.