tacos

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

4coast, coats

One letter away

5tacks, taros

Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and tacos is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is taco — (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Mexican descent. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t aa1 k ow0 z — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

4 other words use exactly these letters: coast, coats, ascot, costa.

The whole set on one page.

• tacks
• taros
• taces
• tachs
• tacts

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts T8,747
• Starts TA1,150
• Ends S
• 5 letters starting T

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.