poke
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, poke 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
- 18coke, joke
What it means
- nountall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous
- nounsomeone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
- nouna bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p ow1 k — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
35 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- artichoke
- awoke
- baroque
- broke
- choke
- cloak
- coke
- croak
- evoke
- folk
- invoke
- joke
- keystroke
- oak
- provoke
- revoke
- smoke
- soak
- spoke
- stoke
- stroke
- woke
- yoke
- yolk
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.