lunge

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

3lungs, longe

• nounthe act of moving forward suddenly
• noun(fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward
• verbmake a thrusting forward movement

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l ah1 n jh — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• plunge
• sponge
• expunge
• grunge

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

• lungs
• longe
• lungi

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts L5,055
• Starts LU456
• Ends E
• 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.