icon

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

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

3coin, cion

One letter away

2iron, ikon

• noun(computer science) a graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface
• nouna visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
• nouna conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ay1 k aa0 n — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

1 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• ikon

3 other words use exactly these letters: coin, cion, coni.

The whole set on one page.

• iron
• ikon

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

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts I6,978
• Starts IC116
• Ends N
• 4 letters starting I

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.