jinx
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, jinx 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
- 4jink, minx
What it means
- nouna person believed to bring bad luck to those around them
- nounan evil spell
- verbcast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as jh ih1 ng 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.
- blinks
- brinks
- chinks
- drinks
- inks
- kinks
- links
- minks
- pinks
- rinks
- shrinks
- sinks
- sphinx
- stinks
- thinks
- winks
- finks
- jinks
- lynx
- uplinks
- skinks
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
- jink
- minx
- jinn
- jins
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.