reign

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, reign sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

1renig

One letter away

2deign, feign

• nouna period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful
• nounthe period during which a monarch is sovereign
• nounroyal authority; the dominion of a monarch

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r ey1 n — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

121 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• abstain
• airplane
• arcane
• arraign
• ascertain
• attain
• biplane
• brain
• campaign
• cane
• cellophane
• chain
• champagne
• cocaine
• complain
• constrain
• contain
• crane
• deign
• detain
• disdain
• domain
• drain
• entertain

One other word use exactly these letters: renig.

• deign
• feign

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts R10,159
• Starts RE6,681
• Ends N
• 5 letters starting R

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.