penny
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, penny sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 10peony, benny
What it means
- nouna fractional monetary unit of Ireland and the United Kingdom; equal to one hundredth of a pound
- nouna coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p eh1 n iy0 — 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.
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- peony
- benny
- jenny
- penna
- penne
- pinny
- fenny
- penni
- punny
- wenny
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 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.