tunic
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, tunic sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1cutin
- One letter away
- 2tonic, runic
What it means
- nounan enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue
- nounany of a variety of loose fitting cloaks extending to the hips or knees
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t uw1 n ih0 k — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: cutin.
One letter away
- tonic
- runic
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.