align

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the second

Anagrams

4algin, liang

One letter away

1alien

• verbplace in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight
• verbbe or come into adjustment with
• verbalign oneself with a group or a way of thinking

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

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

• airline
• alkaline
• assign
• baseline
• benign
• borderline
• bovine
• brine
• canine
• coastline
• confine
• consign
• deadline
• decline
• define
• design
• dine
• divine
• enshrine
• entwine
• equine
• feline
• fine
• grapevine

4 other words use exactly these letters: algin, liang, ligan, linga.

• alien

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts A10,456
• Starts AL969
• Ends N
• 5 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.