fancy

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, fancy sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

3fanny, nancy

• adjectivenot plain; decorative or ornamented
• nounsomething many people believe that is false
• nounimagination or fantasy; held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as f ae1 n s iy0 — 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.

• fiancee
• chancy
• nancy
• necromancy

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

• fanny
• nancy
• farcy

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts F6,767
• Starts FA1,015
• Ends Y
• 5 letters starting F

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.