dark
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, dark sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 17bark, dank
What it means
- adjectivedevoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black
- adjective(used of color) having a dark hue
- adjectivebrunet (used of hair or skin or eyes)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as d aa1 r k — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
36 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- aardvark
- arc
- ark
- bark
- birthmark
- disembark
- earmark
- embark
- hallmark
- hark
- landmark
- lark
- mark
- matriarch
- monarch
- park
- patriarch
- pockmark
- postmark
- quark
- remark
- shark
- spark
- stark
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.