ticks
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, ticks sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1stick
- One letter away
- 12hicks, kicks
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and ticks is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is tick — a metallic tapping sound. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t ih1 k s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
38 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bricks
- candlesticks
- chicks
- clicks
- cliques
- crucifix
- fix
- flicks
- hicks
- kicks
- licks
- lipsticks
- lunatics
- mix
- nicks
- picks
- picnics
- politics
- pricks
- six
- slicks
- sticks
- toothpicks
- tricks
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: stick.
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.