nick
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, nick 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
- 13hick, kick
What it means
- nounan impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
- noun(British slang) a prison
- nouna small cut
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as n ih1 k — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
55 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- brick
- candlestick
- chick
- click
- flick
- hick
- homesick
- joystick
- kick
- lick
- lipstick
- lunatic
- pick
- picnic
- prick
- quick
- seasick
- sic
- sick
- slapstick
- slick
- stick
- thick
- tick
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
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.