media

The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, media sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

3stress on the first

Anagrams

2aimed, amide

One letter away

3medic, medii

Open English WordNet has no entry for media and no lemma one regular ending away from it. It is in the word list and in the size-ranked tiers, which is all this site knows about it. No definition is invented here.

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as m iy1 d iy0 ah0 — 3 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• encyclopedia
• multimedia
• encyclopaedia

2 other words use exactly these letters: aimed, amide.

The whole set on one page.

• medic
• medii
• redia

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts M9,628
• Starts ME1,628
• Ends A
• 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.