gawk
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, gawk 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
- 4hawk, gawp
What it means
- nounan awkward stupid person
- verblook with amazement; look stupidly
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as g ao1 k — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
19 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- balk
- boardwalk
- calk
- hawk
- jaywalk
- sidewalk
- squawk
- stalk
- talk
- tomahawk
- walk
- cornstalk
- crosstalk
- gamecock
- goshawk
- nighthawk
- poppycock
- sleepwalk
- warlock
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
- hawk
- gawp
- gowk
- dawk
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.