tonic
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, tonic sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1ontic
- One letter away
- 8sonic, topic
What it means
- adjectiveof or relating to or producing normal tone or tonus in muscles or tissue
- adjectiveemploying variations in pitch to distinguish meanings of otherwise similar words
- adjective(used of syllables) bearing the principle stress, usually accompanied by a change in pitch
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t aa1 n ih0 k — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
48 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- chronic
- electronic
- embryonic
- harmonic
- ironic
- mnemonic
- sonic
- supersonic
- symphonic
- ultrasonic
- avionic
- bubonic
- catatonic
- conic
- demonic
- diatonic
- ganglionic
- hegemonic
- histrionic
- hydroponic
- hypersonic
- iconic
- ionic
- laconic
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: ontic.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.
Lists it belongs to
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.