mason

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

4moans, manos

One letter away

2macon, meson

• nouna craftsman who works with stone or brick

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as m ey1 s ah0 n — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• basin
• chasten
• hasten
• caisson
• washbasin
• capsaicin

4 other words use exactly these letters: moans, manos, monas, nomas.

The whole set on one page.

• macon
• meson

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts M9,628
• Starts MA2,347
• Ends N
• 5 letters starting M

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.