vex
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, vex sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 10sex, vet
What it means
- verbcause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- verbdisturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress
- verbchange the arrangement or position of
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as v eh1 k s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
39 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- annex
- apex
- bottlenecks
- checks
- convex
- decks
- duplex
- flecks
- flex
- latex
- necks
- perplex
- sex
- simplex
- specks
- treks
- turtlenecks
- wrecks
- becks
- biotechs
- discotheques
- ex
- execs
- hex
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 3 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 1% of the 972 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.