apex
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, apex sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 3aped, apes
What it means
- nounthe highest point (of something)
- nounthe point on the celestial sphere toward which the sun and solar system appear to be moving relative to the fixed stars
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ey1 p eh2 k s — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
39 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- annex
- bottlenecks
- checks
- convex
- decks
- duplex
- flecks
- flex
- latex
- necks
- perplex
- sex
- simplex
- specks
- treks
- turtlenecks
- vex
- wrecks
- becks
- biotechs
- discotheques
- ex
- execs
- hex
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.