lung
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, lung 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
- 15bung, dung
What it means
- nouneither of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates; serves to remove carbon dioxide and provide oxygen to the blood
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l ah1 ng — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
20 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- among
- bung
- clung
- dung
- flung
- hung
- overhung
- rung
- slung
- sprung
- strung
- stung
- sung
- swung
- tongue
- unsung
- wrung
- young
- pung
- tung
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.