hyena
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, hyena sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 3stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 0none in this dictionary
What it means
- noundoglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as hh ay0 iy1 n ah0 — 3 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
19 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- arena
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- marina
- cantina
- concertina
- farina
- galena
- patina
- regina
- semolina
- subpoena
- verbena
- catena
- mina
- salina
- vena
- vina
- pina
- vaccina
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
No word in this dictionary differs from it by exactly one letter.
Same length, one position changed.
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.