disco

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

1sodic

One letter away

4discs, cisco

• nounpopular dance music (especially in the late 1970s); melodic with a regular bass beat; intended mainly for dancing at discotheques
• nouna public dance hall for dancing to recorded popular music
• verbdance to disco music

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as d ih1 s k ow0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

One other word use exactly these letters: sodic.

• discs
• cisco
• pisco
• disci

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts D10,149
• Starts DI3,225
• Ends O
• 5 letters starting D

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.