arena

The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, arena sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

3stress on the second

Anagrams

1anear

One letter away

2areca, frena

• nouna particular environment or walk of life
• nounthe central area of an ancient Roman amphitheater where contests and spectacles were held; especially an area that was strewn with sand
• nouna large structure for open-air sports or entertainments

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as er0 iy1 n ah0 — 3 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.

19 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• ballerina
• hyena
• marina
• cantina
• concertina
• farina
• galena
• patina
• regina
• semolina
• subpoena
• verbena
• catena
• mina
• salina
• vena
• vina
• pina
• vaccina

One other word use exactly these letters: anear.

• areca
• frena

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts A10,456
• Starts AR891
• Ends A
• 5 letters starting A

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.