link
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, link sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1kiln
- One letter away
- 21kink, lick
What it means
- nounthe means of connection between things linked in series
- nouna fastener that serves to join or connect
- nounthe state of being connected
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l ih1 ng k — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
28 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- blink
- brink
- chink
- clink
- drink
- hoodwink
- ink
- mink
- pink
- rethink
- rink
- shrink
- sink
- stink
- think
- wink
- zinc
- fink
- interlink
- jink
- sync
- uplink
- cinque
- dink
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: kiln.
One letter away
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.