flux
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, flux sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 6flex, flue
What it means
- nounthe rate of flow of energy or particles across a given surface
- nouna flow or discharge
- nouna substance added to molten metals to bond with impurities that can then be readily removed
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as f l ah1 k s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
22 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bucks
- clucks
- crux
- deluxe
- ducks
- influx
- lucks
- plucks
- shucks
- sucks
- trucks
- tucks
- woodchucks
- fucks
- lux
- megabucks
- reflux
- rucks
- tux
- yuks
- hucks
- redux
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
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.