piano

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

3stress on the second

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

1pians

• adjective(used chiefly as a direction or description in music) soft; in a quiet, subdued tone
• nouna keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds
• noun(music) low loudness

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p iy0 ae1 n ow0 — 3 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.

• pians

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts P14,566
• Starts PI1,092
• Ends O
• 5 letters starting P

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.