icing

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, icing 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

2acing, iring

• nounthe formation of frost or ice on a surface
• nouna flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes
• noun(ice hockey) the act of shooting the puck from within your own defensive area the length of the rink beyond the opponent's goal

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ay1 s ih0 ng — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• dicing
• enticing
• pricing
• sacrificing
• slicing
• spicing
• splicing
• overpricing
• repricing
• mispricing
• underpricing

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.

• acing
• iring

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts I6,978
• Starts IC116
• Ends G
• 5 letters starting I

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.