task

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, task sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

2kats, skat

One letter away

8bask, cask

• nounany piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
• nouna specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
• verbassign a task to

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t ae1 s k — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

7 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• ask
• bask
• cask
• flask
• mask
• unmask
• basque

2 other words use exactly these letters: kats, skat.

• bask
• cask
• mask
• tack
• talk
• tank
• tusk
• tass

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts T8,747
• Starts TA1,150
• Ends K
• 4 letters starting T

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.