taboo

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the second

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

2tabor, baboo

• adjectiveexcluded from use or mention
• adjectiveforbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands
• nouna prejudice (especially in Polynesia and other South Pacific islands) that prohibits the use or mention of something because of its sacred nature

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t ae0 b uw1 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.

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

• accrue
• ado
• anew
• askew
• avenue
• bamboo
• barbecue
• blew
• blue
• boo
• breakthrough
• brew
• canoe
• caribou
• cashew
• chew
• clue
• construe
• coo
• corkscrew
• coup
• crew
• cuckoo
• cue

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

• tabor
• baboo

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts T8,747
• Starts TA1,150
• Ends O
• 5 letters starting T

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.