works
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, works 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
- 9corks, forks
What it means
- nounbuildings for carrying on industrial labor
- nouneverything available; usually preceded by ‘the’
- nounperformance of moral or religious acts
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as w er1 k s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
21 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- clerks
- fireworks
- frameworks
- irks
- jerks
- lurks
- networks
- overworks
- patchworks
- perks
- quirks
- smirks
- waterworks
- artworks
- dirks
- masterworks
- steelworks
- turks
- birks
- burkes
- kirks
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
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.