taxi

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

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

3maxi, tali

• nouna car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
• verbtravel slowly
• verbride in a taxicab

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t ae1 k s iy0 — 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.

• waxy
• maxi

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.

• maxi
• tali
• taxa

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 I
• 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.