slang
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, slang sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1glans
- One letter away
- 9clang, slant
What it means
- nouninformal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions; often vituperative or vulgar
- nouna characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
- verbuse slang or vulgar language
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s l ae1 ng — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
24 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bang
- boomerang
- clang
- fang
- gang
- hang
- harangue
- mustang
- overhang
- pang
- rang
- sang
- sprang
- tang
- chang
- dang
- lang
- vang
- yang
- liang
- spang
- stang
- strang
- whang
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: glans.
One letter away
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.