anger
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, anger sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2range, regna
- One letter away
- 3angel, auger
What it means
- nouna strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance
- nounthe state of being angry
- nounbelligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ae1 ng g er0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: range, regna.
One letter away
- angel
- auger
- agger
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.