even

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, even sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

1neve

One letter away

4ever, eves

• adjectivedivisible by two
• adjectiveequal in degree or extent or amount; or equally matched or balanced
• adjectivebeing level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with)

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as iy1 v ih0 n — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

One other word use exactly these letters: neve.

• ever
• eves
• oven
• eyen

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts E7,067
• Starts EV243
• Ends N
• 4 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.