latex
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, latex sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1exalt
- One letter away
- 3later, lated
What it means
- nouna milky exudate from certain plants that coagulates on exposure to air
- nouna water-base paint that has a latex binder
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l ey1 t eh2 k s — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
39 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- annex
- apex
- bottlenecks
- checks
- convex
- decks
- duplex
- flecks
- flex
- necks
- perplex
- sex
- simplex
- specks
- treks
- turtlenecks
- vex
- wrecks
- becks
- biotechs
- discotheques
- ex
- execs
- hex
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: exalt.
One letter away
- later
- lated
- laten
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.