bench
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, bench sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 7beach, beech
What it means
- nouna long seat for more than one person
- nouna level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below)
- nounpersons who administer justice
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b eh1 n ch — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
12 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- clench
- drench
- french
- quench
- stench
- trench
- workbench
- wrench
- entrench
- retrench
- tench
- wench
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
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.