genus

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, genus sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

1negus

One letter away

4genes, gents

• nouna general kind of something
• noun(biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as jh iy1 n ah0 s — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

5 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• intravenous
• salinas
• venous
• lenis
• minas

One other word use exactly these letters: negus.

• genes
• gents
• menus
• genua

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts G5,589
• Starts GE689
• Ends S
• 5 letters starting G

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.