hooks
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, hooks sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1shook
- One letter away
- 19books, cooks
What it means
- nounlarge strong hand (as of a fighter)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as hh uh1 k s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
30 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- books
- brooks
- cookbooks
- cooks
- crooks
- guidebooks
- handbooks
- looks
- matchbooks
- nooks
- notebooks
- outlooks
- overlooks
- passbooks
- pocketbooks
- rooks
- scrapbooks
- textbooks
- workbooks
- checkbooks
- overbooks
- overcooks
- schnooks
- schoolbooks
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: shook.
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.