sting
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, sting sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1tings
- One letter away
- 7sling, stink
What it means
- nouna kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung
- nouna mental pain or distress
- nouna painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s t ih1 ng — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
43 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- anything
- bring
- cling
- coiling
- everything
- fling
- hamstring
- king
- modeling
- nuzzling
- offspring
- plaything
- puking
- ring
- shoestring
- sing
- sling
- snorkeling
- splattering
- spring
- staggering
- string
- swing
- thing
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: tings.
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.