tacks
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, tacks sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1stack
- One letter away
- 20backs, hacks
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and tacks is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is tack — the heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t ae1 k s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
87 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- attacks
- ax
- axe
- backpacks
- backs
- backtracks
- blacks
- climax
- counterattacks
- cracks
- cutbacks
- drawbacks
- flapjacks
- flashbacks
- greenbacks
- hacks
- haystacks
- jacks
- kickbacks
- knacks
- lacks
- lax
- lilacs
- maniacs
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: stack.
One letter away
- backs
- hacks
- jacks
- lacks
- packs
- racks
- sacks
- tacky
- tacos
- talks
- tanks
- tasks
- ticks
- tucks
- wacks
- taces
- tachs
- tacts
- macks
- yacks
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.