siren

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

5reins, resin

One letter away

4sired, sires

• nouna woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive
• nouna warning signal that is a loud wailing sound
• nounan acoustic device producing a loud often wailing sound as a signal or warning

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s ay1 r ah0 n — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

5 other words use exactly these letters: reins, resin, rinse, risen, serin.

The whole set on one page.

• sired
• sires
• siree
• syren

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts S18,988
• Starts SI945
• 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.