slack
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, slack sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2calks, lacks
- One letter away
- 11black, clack
What it means
- adjectivenot tense or taut
- adjectiveflowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide
- adjectivelacking in rigor or strictness
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s l 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
2 other words use exactly these letters: calks, lacks.
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.