attic
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, attic sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1tacit
- One letter away
- 1antic
What it means
- nounfloor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage
- nouninformal terms for a human head
- noun(architecture) a low wall at the top of the entablature; hides the roof
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ae1 t ih0 k — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
61 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- acrobatic
- aristocratic
- aromatic
- autocratic
- automatic
- axiomatic
- bureaucratic
- charismatic
- democratic
- diplomatic
- dogmatic
- dramatic
- ecstatic
- electrostatic
- emphatic
- enigmatic
- erratic
- fanatic
- idiomatic
- idiosyncratic
- lymphatic
- melodramatic
- operatic
- pancreatic
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: tacit.
One letter away
- antic
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.