bang
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, bang sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 18band, bani
What it means
- nouna vigorous blow
- nouna sudden very loud noise
- nouna border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b ae1 ng — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
24 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- boomerang
- clang
- fang
- gang
- hang
- harangue
- mustang
- overhang
- pang
- rang
- sang
- slang
- sprang
- tang
- chang
- dang
- lang
- vang
- yang
- liang
- spang
- stang
- strang
- whang
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.