epic

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, epic sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

1pice

One letter away

3spic, emic

• adjectivevery imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale)
• adjectiveconstituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic
• nouna long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as eh1 p ih0 k — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

One other word use exactly these letters: pice.

• spic
• emic
• etic

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts E7,067
• Starts EP436
• Ends C
• 4 letters starting E

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.