lax
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, lax sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 23lab, lad
What it means
- adjectivelacking in rigor or strictness
- adjectivepronounced with muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in ‘bet’)
- adjectivelacking in firmness or tension; not taut
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l ae1 k s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
87 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- attacks
- ax
- axe
- backpacks
- backs
- backtracks
- blacks
- climax
- counterattacks
- cracks
- cutbacks
- drawbacks
- flapjacks
- flashbacks
- greenbacks
- hacks
- haystacks
- jacks
- kickbacks
- knacks
- lacks
- lilacs
- maniacs
- packs
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 3 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 2% of the 972 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.