enemy

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

3stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

1enema

• nounan opposing military force
• nounan armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force)
• nounany hostile group of people

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as eh1 n ah0 m iy0 — 3 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• archenemy

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.

• enema

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts E7,067
• Starts EN1,433
• Ends Y
• 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.