zinc

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

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

2zing, zins

• nouna bluish-white lustrous metallic element; brittle at ordinary temperatures but malleable when heated; used in a wide variety of alloys and in galvanizing iron; it occurs naturally as zinc sulphide in zinc blende
• verbcoat or cover with zinc

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as z ih1 ng k — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• blink
• brink
• chink
• clink
• drink
• hoodwink
• ink
• link
• mink
• pink
• rethink
• rink
• shrink
• sink
• stink
• think
• wink
• fink
• interlink
• jink
• sync
• uplink
• cinque
• dink

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.

• zing
• zins

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

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts Z532
• Starts ZI119
• Ends C
• 4 letters starting Z

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.