crook
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, crook sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 5brook, croak
What it means
- nounsomeone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
- nouna circular segment of a curve
- nouna long staff with one end being hook shaped
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k r 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.
- book
- brook
- cook
- cookbook
- forsook
- guidebook
- handbook
- hook
- look
- matchbook
- mistook
- nook
- notebook
- outlook
- overlook
- overtook
- passbook
- pocketbook
- rook
- scrapbook
- shook
- textbook
- took
- undertook
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
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.