ranks
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, ranks sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 4knars, narks
- One letter away
- 9banks, racks
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and ranks is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is rank — very fertile; producing profuse growth. 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 r ae1 ng k s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
15 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
4 other words use exactly these letters: knars, narks, snark, karns.
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.