lyric

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, lyric sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

2lytic, pyric

• adjectiveexpressing deep emotion
• adjectiveused of a singer or singing voice that is light in volume and modest in range
• adjectiverelating to or being musical drama

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l ih1 r ih0 k — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• hemispheric
• pyrrhic
• satiric
• stratospheric
• vampiric

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.

• lytic
• pyric

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts L5,055
• Starts LY180
• Ends C
• 5 letters starting L

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.