along
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, along sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 1logan
- One letter away
- 5alone, among
What it means
- adverbwith a forward motion
- adverbin accompaniment or as a companion
- adverbto a more advanced state
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ah0 l ao1 ng — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
27 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- belong
- diphthong
- furlong
- gong
- headlong
- headstrong
- lifelong
- long
- prolong
- prong
- song
- strong
- thong
- throng
- wrong
- birdsong
- daylong
- dong
- hong
- monthlong
- plainsong
- pong
- sarong
- tong
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: logan.
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.