lacks
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, lacks sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2calks, slack
- One letter away
- 15backs, hacks
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and lacks is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is lack — the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l ae1 k s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
87 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- attacks
- ax
- axe
- backpacks
- backs
- backtracks
- blacks
- climax
- counterattacks
- cracks
- cutbacks
- drawbacks
- flapjacks
- flashbacks
- greenbacks
- hacks
- haystacks
- jacks
- kickbacks
- knacks
- lax
- lilacs
- maniacs
- packs
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: calks, slack.
One letter away
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.