wreck
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, wreck sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 4wreak, wrack
What it means
- nounsomething or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation
- nounan accident that destroys a ship at sea
- nouna serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r eh1 k — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
35 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bottleneck
- breakneck
- check
- deck
- fleck
- neck
- peck
- sec
- speck
- trek
- turtleneck
- beck
- bedeck
- biotech
- discotheque
- exec
- heck
- henpeck
- keck
- lech
- parsec
- paycheck
- quarterdeck
- rec
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- wreak
- wrack
- dreck
- wrick
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.