slake

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, slake sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

—not in the pronouncing dictionary

Anagrams

3lakes, leaks

One letter away

7flake, shake

• verbsatisfy (thirst)
• verbmake less active or intense
• verbcause to heat and crumble by treatment with water

Not one of the 50,962 words of ours that the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary covers, so this page prints no syllable count, no stress and no rhymes for it.

3 other words use exactly these letters: lakes, leaks, kales.

The whole set on one page.

• flake
• shake
• slate
• slave
• snake
• stake
• spake

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts S18,988
• Starts SL704
• Ends E
• 5 letters starting S

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.