taco

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

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

1coat

One letter away

5tack, tact

• noun(ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Mexican descent
• nouna tortilla rolled cupped around a filling

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t aa1 k ow0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• morocco
• mako

One other word use exactly these letters: coat.

The whole set on one page.

• tack
• tact
• taro
• tace
• tach

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

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts T8,747
• Starts TA1,150
• Ends O
• 4 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.