seeks
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, seeks sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1skees
- One letter away
- 11leeks, peeks
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and seeks is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is seek — the movement of a read/write head to a specific data track on a disk. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s iy1 k s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
26 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- antiques
- beaks
- boutiques
- cheeks
- creeks
- critiques
- freaks
- leaks
- leeks
- peaks
- peeks
- reeks
- shrieks
- sneaks
- speaks
- squeaks
- streaks
- techniques
- tweaks
- weeks
- wreaks
- bespeaks
- geeks
- grosbeaks
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: skees.
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.