sink
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, sink sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3inks, skin
- One letter away
- 19kink, link
What it means
- nounplumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe
- noun(technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system
- nouna depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s ih1 ng k — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
28 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- blink
- brink
- chink
- clink
- drink
- hoodwink
- ink
- link
- mink
- pink
- rethink
- rink
- shrink
- stink
- think
- wink
- zinc
- fink
- interlink
- jink
- sync
- uplink
- cinque
- dink
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: inks, skin, kins.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.