snake
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, snake sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3sneak, skean
- One letter away
- 6shake, slake
What it means
- nounlimbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
- nouna deceitful or treacherous person
- nounsomething long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s n ey1 k — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
60 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ache
- awake
- bake
- brake
- break
- cake
- daybreak
- earthquake
- fake
- flake
- forsake
- handshake
- headache
- heartache
- heartbreak
- intake
- keepsake
- lake
- make
- mistake
- namesake
- opaque
- outbreak
- overtake
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: sneak, skean, kanes.
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.