stick
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, stick sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1ticks
- One letter away
- 9slick, stack
What it means
- nounan implement consisting of a length of wood
- nouna small thin branch of a tree
- nouna lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s t ih1 k — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
55 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- brick
- candlestick
- chick
- click
- flick
- hick
- homesick
- joystick
- kick
- lick
- lipstick
- lunatic
- nick
- pick
- picnic
- prick
- quick
- seasick
- sic
- sick
- slapstick
- slick
- thick
- tick
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: ticks.
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.