epics

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

2spice, sepic

One letter away

1spics

Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and epics is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is epic — very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale). The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.

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

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

2 other words use exactly these letters: spice, sepic.

The whole set on one page.

• spics

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts E7,067
• Starts EP436
• Ends S
• 5 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.