pokes
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, pokes sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1spoke
- One letter away
- 20cokes, jokes
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and pokes is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is poke — tall 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. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p ow1 k s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
21 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- artichokes
- chokes
- coax
- cokes
- evokes
- folks
- hoax
- invokes
- jokes
- keystrokes
- oaks
- provokes
- smokes
- soaks
- spokes
- stokes
- strokes
- yokes
- yolks
- blokes
- mokes
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: spoke.
One letter away
- cokes
- jokes
- pikes
- poked
- poker
- poles
- pores
- poses
- pukes
- yokes
- hokes
- pekes
- pokey
- pones
- popes
- poxes
- tokes
- mokes
- pomes
- sokes
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.