fence
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, fence sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 2hence, pence
What it means
- nouna barrier that serves to enclose an area
- nouna dealer in stolen property
- verbenclose with a fence
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as f eh1 n s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
25 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- commence
- condense
- defense
- dense
- dispense
- expense
- hence
- immense
- incense
- intense
- offense
- pence
- pretense
- recompense
- sense
- suspense
- tense
- thence
- whence
- commonsense
- frankincense
- spence
- antisense
- nondefense
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
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.