poker
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, poker sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 9joker, poked
What it means
- nounfire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle; used to stir a fire
- nounany of various card games in which players bet that they hold the highest-ranking hand
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p ow1 k er0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
10 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- broker
- joker
- mediocre
- smoker
- stockbroker
- nonsmoker
- soaker
- stoker
- croaker
- ochre
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
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.