jerk
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, jerk 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
- 4perk, yerk
What it means
- nouna dull stupid fatuous person
- nounan abrupt spasmodic movement
- noun(mechanics) the rate of change of acceleration
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as jh er1 k — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
51 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- artwork
- berserk
- clerk
- clockwork
- firework
- footwork
- framework
- groundwork
- guesswork
- handiwork
- homework
- housework
- irk
- lurk
- needlework
- network
- overwork
- paperwork
- patchwork
- perk
- piecework
- quirk
- rework
- shirk
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
- perk
- yerk
- zerk
- merk
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.