riot

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

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

4trio, roti

One letter away

3rift, root

• nouna public act of violence by an unruly mob
• nouna state of disorder involving group violence
• nouna joke that seems extremely funny

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r ay1 ah0 t — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• diet
• disquiet
• quiet
• guyot

4 other words use exactly these letters: trio, roti, tiro, tori.

The whole set on one page.

• rift
• root
• ryot

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

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts R10,159
• Starts RI613
• Ends T
• 4 letters starting R

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.