bingo
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, bingo sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1boing
- One letter away
- 6lingo, binge
What it means
- nouna game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b ih1 ng g ow0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
4 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- flamingo
- lingo
- dingo
- gringo
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: boing.
One letter away
- lingo
- binge
- bongo
- dingo
- jingo
- pingo
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.