yaks

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, yaks sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

—not in the pronouncing dictionary

Anagrams

1kays

One letter away

8oaks, yams

Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and yaks is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is yak — noisy talk. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.

Not one of the 50,962 words of ours that the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary covers, so this page prints no syllable count, no stress and no rhymes for it.

One other word use exactly these letters: kays.

• oaks
• yams
• yaps
• yaws
• yuks
• daks
• yays
• yoks

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts Y547
• Starts YA176
• Ends S
• 4 letters starting Y

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.