taxis

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, taxis 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

5taxes, maxis

• nouna locomotor response toward or away from an external stimulus by a motile (and usually simple) organism
• nounthe surgical procedure of manually restoring a displaced body part

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

• maxis

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

• taxes
• maxis
• tamis
• tapis
• taxus

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 S
• 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.