neon

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, neon sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

1none

One letter away

4noon, peon

• nouna colorless odorless gaseous element that gives a red glow in a vacuum tube; one of the six inert gasses; occurs in the air in small amounts

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as n iy1 aa0 n — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

One other word use exactly these letters: none.

The whole set on one page.

• noon
• peon
• jeon
• aeon

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts N4,392
• Starts NE920
• Ends N
• 4 letters starting N

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.