shuck
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, shuck sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1hucks
- One letter away
- 5chuck, shack
What it means
- nounmaterial consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
- verbremove from the shell
- verbremove the shucks from
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as sh ah1 k — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
33 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- amok
- buck
- chuck
- cluck
- duck
- luck
- muck
- pluck
- puck
- struck
- stuck
- suck
- thunderstruck
- truck
- tuck
- unstuck
- woodchuck
- yuk
- awestruck
- dumbstruck
- fuck
- huck
- moonstruck
- potluck
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: hucks.
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.