optic

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

2topic, picot

One letter away

1ontic

• adjectiveof or relating to or resembling the eye
• adjectiverelating to or using sight
• nounthe organ of sight

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as aa1 p t 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.

• synoptic

2 other words use exactly these letters: topic, picot.

The whole set on one page.

• ontic

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts O5,843
• Starts OP334
• Ends C
• 5 letters starting O

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.