oak

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, oak sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

3972 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

2koa, oka

One letter away

5oaf, oar

• nounthe hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for furniture and flooring
• nouna deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ow1 k — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

35 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• artichoke
• awoke
• baroque
• broke
• choke
• cloak
• coke
• croak
• evoke
• folk
• invoke
• joke
• keystroke
• poke
• provoke
• revoke
• smoke
• soak
• spoke
• stoke
• stroke
• woke
• yoke
• yolk

2 other words use exactly these letters: koa, oka.

• oaf
• oar
• yak
• oat
• dak

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 972 words this long are a neighbour.

• 3 letter words972
• Starts O5,843
• Starts OA49
• Ends K
• 3 letters starting O

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.