shack
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, shack sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1hacks
- One letter away
- 10shark, shock
What it means
- nounsmall crude shelter used as a dwelling
- verbmake one's home in a particular place or community
- verbmove, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as sh ae1 k — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
109 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- aback
- almanac
- attack
- back
- backpack
- backtrack
- black
- blackjack
- cardiac
- clack
- cognac
- comeback
- counterattack
- crack
- cutback
- drawback
- feedback
- flak
- flapjack
- flashback
- greenback
- hack
- hardback
- haystack
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: hacks.
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.