fling
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, fling 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
- 5cling, flint
What it means
- nouna usually brief attempt
- nouna brief indulgence of your impulses
- nounthe act of flinging
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as f l ih1 ng — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
43 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- anything
- bring
- cling
- coiling
- everything
- hamstring
- king
- modeling
- nuzzling
- offspring
- plaything
- puking
- ring
- shoestring
- sing
- sling
- snorkeling
- splattering
- spring
- staggering
- sting
- string
- swing
- thing
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.