basin

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, basin sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

2sabin, nabis

One letter away

4basic, basil

• nouna bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids
• nounthe quantity that a basin will hold
• nouna natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b ey1 s ah0 n — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• chasten
• hasten
• mason
• caisson
• washbasin
• capsaicin

2 other words use exactly these letters: sabin, nabis.

• basic
• basil
• basis
• sasin

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts B9,279
• Starts BA1,801
• Ends N
• 5 letters starting B

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.