hawks
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, hawks 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
- 7gawks, hacks
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and hawks is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is hawk — diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as hh ao1 k s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
17 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- balks
- boardwalks
- chalks
- sidewalks
- squawks
- stalks
- talks
- tomahawks
- walks
- cornstalks
- faux
- flummox
- gamecocks
- nighthawks
- toolbox
- unbox
- warlocks
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.