idiom

The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, idiom sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

3stress on the first

Anagrams

1imido

One letter away

1idiot

• nouna manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language
• nounthe usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
• nounthe style of a particular artist or school or movement

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ih1 d iy0 ah0 m — 3 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• iridium
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One other word use exactly these letters: imido.

• idiot

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts I6,978
• Starts ID172
• Ends M
• 5 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.