dock
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, dock 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
- 16cock, deck
What it means
- nounan enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial
- nounany of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
- nouna platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as d aa1 k — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
69 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bedrock
- bloc
- block
- catwalk
- caulk
- chalk
- clock
- cock
- crock
- crosswalk
- deadlock
- flock
- frock
- hemlock
- hock
- interlock
- knock
- laughingstock
- livestock
- lock
- mock
- padlock
- peacock
- roadblock
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.