long
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, long sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 11gong, lone
What it means
- adjectiveprimarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
- adjectiveprimarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified
- adjectiveof relatively great height
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l ao1 ng — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
27 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- along
- belong
- diphthong
- furlong
- gong
- headlong
- headstrong
- lifelong
- prolong
- prong
- song
- strong
- thong
- throng
- wrong
- birdsong
- daylong
- dong
- hong
- monthlong
- plainsong
- pong
- sarong
- tong
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.