wax

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, wax sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

3972 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

19lax, tax

• nounany of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin; they are solid at normal temperatures and insoluble in water
• verbcover with wax
• verbgo up or advance

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

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

• attacks
• ax
• axe
• backpacks
• backs
• backtracks
• blacks
• climax
• counterattacks
• cracks
• cutbacks
• drawbacks
• flapjacks
• flashbacks
• greenbacks
• hacks
• haystacks
• jacks
• kickbacks
• knacks
• lacks
• lax
• lilacs
• maniacs

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 3 letters.

• lax
• tax
• wad
• wag
• wan
• war
• was
• way
• fax
• max
• sax
• pax
• rax
• wae
• wap
• wat
• waw
• zax
• wab

Same length, one position changed. 2% of the 972 words this long are a neighbour.

• 3 letter words972
• Starts W3,694
• Starts WA1,007
• Ends X
• 3 letters starting W

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.