silo

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

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

3oils, soil

One letter away

8kilo, silk

• nouna cylindrical tower used for storing silage
• nounmilitary installation consisting of an underground structure where ballistic missiles can be stored and fired

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s ay1 l ow0 — 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.

• milo

3 other words use exactly these letters: oils, soil, soli.

The whole set on one page.

• kilo
• silk
• sill
• silt
• solo
• filo
• milo
• sild

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

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts S18,988
• Starts SI945
• Ends O
• 4 letters starting S

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.