going
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, going sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 2doing, boing
What it means
- adjectivein full operation
- nounthe act of departing
- nouneuphemistic expressions for death
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as g ow1 ih0 ng — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
42 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bestowing
- blowing
- bowing
- crowing
- easygoing
- elbowing
- flowing
- foregoing
- forgoing
- glowing
- growing
- hoeing
- knowing
- lowing
- ongoing
- outgoing
- outgrowing
- overflowing
- overthrowing
- owing
- plateauing
- rowing
- sewing
- showing
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- doing
- boing
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.