relax
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, relax sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 1laxer
- One letter away
- 3relay, retax
What it means
- verbbecome less tense, rest, or take one's ease
- verbmake less taut
- verbbecome loose or looser or less tight
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r ih0 l ae1 k s — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
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
- lax
- lilacs
- maniacs
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: laxer.
One letter away
- relay
- retax
- rewax
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.