akin

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, akin sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the second

Anagrams

2kain, kina

One letter away

4skin, agin

• adjectivesimilar in quality or character
• adjectiverelated by blood

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ah0 k ih1 n — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.

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

• been
• begin
• bin
• chagrin
• chin
• din
• fin
• foreskin
• gin
• grin
• herein
• in
• inn
• kin
• linchpin
• mandolin
• pin
• shin
• sin
• skin
• spin
• tailspin
• therein
• thin

2 other words use exactly these letters: kain, kina.

• skin
• agin
• amin
• ayin

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts A10,456
• Starts AK10
• Ends N
• 4 letters starting A

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.