irony

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

3stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

3crony, irons

• nounwitty language used to convey insults or scorn
• nounincongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs
• nouna trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ay1 r ah0 n iy0 — 3 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

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

• crony
• irons
• irone

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts I6,978
• Starts IR310
• Ends Y
• 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.