liner
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, liner 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
- 14diner, finer
What it means
- noun(baseball) a hit that flies straight out from the batter
- nouna protective covering that protects an inside surface
- nouna piece of cloth that is used as the inside surface of a garment
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l ay1 n er0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
17 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- airliner
- designer
- diner
- finer
- miner
- minor
- decliner
- eyeliner
- headliner
- jetliner
- recliner
- refiner
- shiner
- signer
- whiner
- briner
- weiner
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
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.