elk

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, elk sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

3972 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

1lek

One letter away

6elf, elm

• nounlarge northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called ‘elk’ in Europe and ‘moose’ in North America
• nounlarge North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male
• nouncommon deer of temperate Europe and Asia

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as eh1 l k — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

One other word use exactly these letters: lek.

• elf
• elm
• ilk
• ell
• eld
• els

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 972 words this long are a neighbour.

• 3 letter words972
• Starts E7,067
• Starts EL571
• Ends K
• 3 letters starting E

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.