tusk
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, tusk sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 10dusk, husk
What it means
- nouna hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses
- nouna long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging; especially in an elephant or walrus or hog
- verbstab or pierce with a horn or tusk
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t ah1 s k — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
8 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.