satin

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

4saint, stain

One letter away

7sabin, sarin

• nouna smooth fabric of silk or rayon; has a glossy face and a dull back

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s ae1 t ah0 n — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• fatten
• flatten
• batten
• manhattan
• platen
• craton
• patten

4 other words use exactly these letters: saint, stain, antis, tains.

The whole set on one page.

• sabin
• sarin
• matin
• patin
• sasin
• satis
• savin

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts S18,988
• Starts SA1,569
• Ends N
• 5 letters starting S

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.