epoch
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, epoch 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
- 0none in this dictionary
What it means
- nouna period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
- noun(astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded
- nouna unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as eh1 p ah0 k — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
No word in this dictionary differs from it by exactly one letter.
Same length, one position changed.
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.