elks

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, elks sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

1leks

One letter away

4elms, ells

Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and elks is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is elk — large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called ‘elk’ in Europe and ‘moose’ in North America. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.

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

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

One other word use exactly these letters: leks.

• elms
• ells
• ilks
• elds

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts E7,067
• Starts EL571
• Ends S
• 4 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.