meek
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, meek 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
- 10leek, meet
What it means
- adjectivehumble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness
- adjectivevery docile
- adjectiveevidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as m iy1 k — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
52 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- antique
- beak
- bleak
- boutique
- cheek
- chic
- clique
- creak
- creek
- critique
- eke
- freak
- greek
- leak
- leek
- oblique
- peak
- peek
- physique
- pique
- reek
- seek
- sheikh
- shriek
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.