basic

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, basic sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

4basil, basin

• adjectivepertaining to or constituting a base or basis
• adjectivereduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality
• adjectiveserving as a base or starting point

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b ey1 s ih0 k — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

1 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• diabasic

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.

• basil
• basin
• basis
• baric

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts B9,279
• Starts BA1,801
• Ends C
• 5 letters starting B

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.