brake
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, brake sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3baker, break
- One letter away
- 7brace, brave
What it means
- nouna restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
- nounany of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
- nounlarge coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b r ey1 k — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
60 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ache
- awake
- bake
- break
- cake
- daybreak
- earthquake
- fake
- flake
- forsake
- handshake
- headache
- heartache
- heartbreak
- intake
- keepsake
- lake
- make
- mistake
- namesake
- opaque
- outbreak
- overtake
- pancake
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: baker, break, kebar.
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.