fang
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, fang sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 14bang, fans
What it means
- nounan appendage of insects that is capable of injecting venom; usually evolved from the legs
- nouncanine tooth of a carnivorous animal; used to seize and tear its prey
- nounhollow or grooved tooth of a venomous snake; used to inject its poison
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as f ae1 ng — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
24 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bang
- boomerang
- clang
- gang
- hang
- harangue
- mustang
- overhang
- pang
- rang
- sang
- slang
- sprang
- tang
- chang
- dang
- lang
- vang
- yang
- liang
- spang
- stang
- strang
- whang
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.