clerk

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, clerk 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

1cleek

• nounan employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts)
• nouna salesperson in a store
• verbwork as a clerk, as in the legal business

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k l er1 k — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• artwork
• berserk
• clockwork
• firework
• footwork
• framework
• groundwork
• guesswork
• handiwork
• homework
• housework
• irk
• jerk
• lurk
• needlework
• network
• overwork
• paperwork
• patchwork
• perk
• piecework
• quirk
• rework
• shirk

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.

• cleek

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts C16,229
• Starts CL963
• Ends K
• 5 letters starting C

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.