tenor

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

3toner, noter

One letter away

2senor, tenon

• adjective(of a musical instrument) intermediate between alto and baritone or bass
• adjectiveof or close in range to the highest natural adult male voice
• nounthe adult male singing voice above baritone

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t eh1 n er0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• countertenor
• tenner
• heldentenor
• penner

3 other words use exactly these letters: toner, noter, trone.

• senor
• tenon

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts T8,747
• Starts TE1,375
• Ends R
• 5 letters starting T

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.