clack
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, clack 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
- 11black, clank
What it means
- nouna sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together; may be repeated
- nouna simple valve with a hinge on one side; allows fluid to flow in only one direction
- verbmake a rattling sound
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k l ae1 k — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
109 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- aback
- almanac
- attack
- back
- backpack
- backtrack
- black
- blackjack
- cardiac
- cognac
- comeback
- counterattack
- crack
- cutback
- drawback
- feedback
- flak
- flapjack
- flashback
- greenback
- hack
- hardback
- haystack
- hijack
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.