wharf
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, wharf sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 0none in this dictionary
What it means
- nouna platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats
- verbprovide with a wharf
- verbstore on a wharf
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as w ao1 r f — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
3 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- dwarf
- morph
- polymorph
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
No word in this dictionary differs from it by exactly one letter.
Same length, one position changed.
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.