liken

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

1inkle

One letter away

6liked, likes

• verbconsider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l ay1 k ah0 n — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• lichen

One other word use exactly these letters: inkle.

• liked
• likes
• linen
• liven
• liker
• limen

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts L5,055
• Starts LI1,222
• Ends N
• 5 letters starting L

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.