duct
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, duct 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
- 7duck, duet
What it means
- nouna bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
- nouna continuous tube formed by a row of elongated cells lacking intervening end walls
- nounan enclosed conduit for a fluid
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as d ah1 k t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
20 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abduct
- aqueduct
- bucked
- chucked
- construct
- deduct
- ducked
- induct
- instruct
- lucked
- obstruct
- plucked
- reconstruct
- shucked
- sucked
- trucked
- tucked
- deconstruct
- destruct
- fucked
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.