cork
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, cork sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1rock
- One letter away
- 14cock, cook
What it means
- nounouter bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc.
- noun(botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells
- nounthe plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a wine bottle)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k ao1 r k — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
7 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: rock.
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.