kinky
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, kinky sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 6kinks, dinky
What it means
- adjective(used of sexual behavior) showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes
- adjective(of hair) in small tight curls
- adjective(informal) strikingly unconventional
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k ih1 ng k iy0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
6 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- inky
- dinky
- pinkie
- slinky
- stinky
- pinky
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- kinks
- dinky
- kicky
- zinky
- linky
- pinky
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 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.