eaten

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

1enate

One letter away

4eater, oaten

Open English WordNet has no entry for eaten and no lemma one regular ending away from it. It is in the word list and in the size-ranked tiers, which is all this site knows about it. No definition is invented here.

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as iy1 t 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.

• beaten
• cretin
• sweeten
• seton
• unbeaten
• wheaten

One other word use exactly these letters: enate.

• eater
• oaten
• laten
• paten

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts E7,067
• Starts EA207
• Ends N
• 5 letters starting E

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.