six
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, six sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1xis
- One letter away
- 15fix, mix
What it means
- adjectivebeing one more than five
- nounthe cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
- nouna playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows six pips
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s ih1 k s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
38 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bricks
- candlesticks
- chicks
- clicks
- cliques
- crucifix
- fix
- flicks
- hicks
- kicks
- licks
- lipsticks
- lunatics
- mix
- nicks
- picks
- picnics
- politics
- pricks
- slicks
- sticks
- ticks
- toothpicks
- tricks
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: xis.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 2% 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.