curio
The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, curio 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
- 2curia, curie
What it means
- nounsomething unusual — perhaps worthy of collecting
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k y uh1 r iy0 ow0 — 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
- curia
- curie
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.