queen
The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, queen sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 3queer, quean
What it means
- nounthe only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
- nouna female sovereign ruler
- nounthe wife or widow of a king
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k w iy1 n — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
158 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- amphetamine
- aquamarine
- bean
- between
- caffeine
- canteen
- clean
- contravene
- convene
- cuisine
- dean
- demean
- eighteen
- evergreen
- fifteen
- foreseen
- fourteen
- gasoline
- gene
- glean
- green
- guillotine
- hygiene
- intervene
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- queer
- quean
- quern
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.