hoax
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, hoax 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
- 2coax, hoar
What it means
- nounsomething intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
- verbsubject to a playful hoax or joke
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as hh ow1 k s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
21 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- artichokes
- chokes
- coax
- cokes
- evokes
- folks
- invokes
- jokes
- keystrokes
- oaks
- pokes
- provokes
- smokes
- soaks
- spokes
- stokes
- strokes
- yokes
- yolks
- blokes
- mokes
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
- coax
- hoar
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.