peon
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, peon sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3open, nope
- One letter away
- 9neon, peen
What it means
- nouna laborer who is obliged to do menial work
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p iy1 ah0 n — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
11 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- eon
- libertarian
- librarian
- vegetarian
- epicurean
- fustian
- ovarian
- paean
- plebeian
- protean
- cyclopean
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: open, nope, pone.
One letter away
- neon
- peen
- jeon
- pean
- pein
- phon
- pion
- poon
- aeon
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.