punks
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, punks sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1spunk
- One letter away
- 14bunks, dunks
What it means
- nouna youth subculture closely associated with punk rock music in the late 1970s; in part a reaction to the hippy subculture; dress was optional but intended to shock (plastic garbage bags or old school uniforms) and hair was dyed in bright colors (in Mohican haircuts or sometimes spiked in bright plumes)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p ah1 ng k s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
13 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: spunk.
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.