shirk
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, shirk sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 7shark, shire
What it means
- verbavoid (one's assigned duties)
- verbavoid dealing with
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as sh er1 k — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
51 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- artwork
- berserk
- clerk
- clockwork
- firework
- footwork
- framework
- groundwork
- guesswork
- handiwork
- homework
- housework
- irk
- jerk
- lurk
- needlework
- network
- overwork
- paperwork
- patchwork
- perk
- piecework
- quirk
- rework
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.