axiom
The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, axiom sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 3stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 1axion
What it means
- nouna saying that is widely accepted on its own merits
- noun(logic) a proposition that is not susceptible of proof or disproof; its truth is assumed to be self-evident
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ae1 k s iy0 ah0 m — 3 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
- axion
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.