irked

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, irked sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

1diker

One letter away

1inked

Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and irked is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is irk — irritate or vex. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as er1 k t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

8 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• jerked
• lurked
• networked
• overworked
• perked
• shirked
• worked
• reworked

One other word use exactly these letters: diker.

• inked

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts I6,978
• Starts IR310
• Ends D
• 5 letters starting I

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.