shock
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, shock sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1hocks
- One letter away
- 6shack, shook
What it means
- nounthe feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally
- nounthe violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat
- nouna reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as sh aa1 k — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
69 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bedrock
- bloc
- block
- catwalk
- caulk
- chalk
- clock
- cock
- crock
- crosswalk
- deadlock
- dock
- flock
- frock
- hemlock
- hock
- interlock
- knock
- laughingstock
- livestock
- lock
- mock
- padlock
- peacock
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: hocks.
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.