spicy

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, spicy 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

8spice, spica

• adjectiveproducing a burning sensation on the taste nerves
• adjectivesuggestive of sexual impropriety

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s p ay1 s iy0 — 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.

• icy
• dicey
• pricey
• spicey

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

• spice
• spica
• spics
• spiky
• spiny
• spiry
• spacy
• spick

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts S18,988
• Starts SP1,704
• Ends Y
• 5 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.