fox
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, fox sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 18box, cox
What it means
- nounalert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail; most are predators that do not hunt in packs
- nouna shifty deceptive person
- nounthe grey or reddish-brown fur of a fox
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as f aa1 k s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
59 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- blocks
- blocs
- box
- clocks
- cocks
- cox
- crosswalks
- deadlocks
- docks
- equinox
- flocks
- frocks
- knocks
- locks
- mailbox
- mocks
- orthodox
- ox
- padlocks
- paradox
- peacocks
- roadblocks
- rocks
- shocks
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 3 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 2% of the 972 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.