pluck
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, pluck sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 3cluck, plunk
What it means
- nounthe trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury
- nounthe act of pulling and releasing a taut cord
- verbpull or pull out sharply
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p l ah1 k — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
33 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- amok
- buck
- chuck
- cluck
- duck
- luck
- muck
- puck
- shuck
- struck
- stuck
- suck
- thunderstruck
- truck
- tuck
- unstuck
- woodchuck
- yuk
- awestruck
- dumbstruck
- fuck
- huck
- moonstruck
- potluck
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- cluck
- plunk
- plack
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.