skulk
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, skulk sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 3skull, skunk
What it means
- verblie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner
- verbavoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill
- verbmove furtively
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s k ah1 l k — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
3 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
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.