sec
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, sec sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 14sac, sea
What it means
- adjective(of champagne) moderately dry
- noun1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
- nounratio of the hypotenuse to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s eh1 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.
- bottleneck
- breakneck
- check
- deck
- fleck
- neck
- peck
- speck
- trek
- turtleneck
- wreck
- beck
- bedeck
- biotech
- discotheque
- exec
- heck
- henpeck
- keck
- lech
- parsec
- paycheck
- quarterdeck
- rec
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 3 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 1% of the 972 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.