colon

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, colon 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

6color, codon

• nounthe part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted
• nounthe basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos
• nounthe basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k ow1 l ah0 n — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• stolen
• swollen
• solon
• solan
• tolan

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

• color
• codon
• colin
• solon
• cogon
• colog

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts C16,229
• Starts CO6,432
• Ends N
• 5 letters starting C

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.