edict
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, edict sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1cited
- One letter away
- 2evict, educt
What it means
- nouna formal or authoritative proclamation
- nouna legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as iy1 d ih0 k t — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: cited.
One letter away
- evict
- educt
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.