fiend
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, fiend sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1fined
- One letter away
- 1field
What it means
- nouna cruel wicked and inhuman person
- nounan evil supernatural being
- nouna person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as f iy1 n d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
14 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- cleaned
- convened
- demeaned
- gleaned
- greened
- intervened
- leaned
- machined
- preened
- quarantined
- screened
- weaned
- careened
- reconvened
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: fined.
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.