stark
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, stark sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2karts, karst
- One letter away
- 11shark, spark
What it means
- adjectivedevoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
- adjectiveseverely simple
- adjectivecomplete or extreme
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s t 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
- shark
- spark
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: karts, karst.
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.