talks
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, talks sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1stalk
- One letter away
- 11balks, calks
What it means
- nouna discussion intended to produce an agreement
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t ao1 k s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
17 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- balks
- boardwalks
- chalks
- hawks
- sidewalks
- squawks
- stalks
- tomahawks
- walks
- cornstalks
- faux
- flummox
- gamecocks
- nighthawks
- toolbox
- unbox
- warlocks
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: stalk.
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.