ebony
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, ebony sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 3stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1boney
- One letter away
- 1ebons
What it means
- adjectiveof a very dark black
- nouna very dark black
- nounhard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and for piano keys
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as eh1 b ah0 n iy0 — 3 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: boney.
One letter away
- ebons
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.