shark
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, shark sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1harks
- One letter away
- 11shack, share
What it means
- nounany of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales
- nouna person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest
- nouna person who is unusually skilled in certain ways
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as sh aa1 r k — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
36 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- aardvark
- arc
- ark
- bark
- birthmark
- dark
- disembark
- earmark
- embark
- hallmark
- hark
- landmark
- lark
- mark
- matriarch
- monarch
- park
- patriarch
- pockmark
- postmark
- quark
- remark
- spark
- stark
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: harks.
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.