bison

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

1boson

• nounany of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b ay1 s ah0 n — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• hyson

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.

• boson

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts B9,279
• Starts BI1,120
• Ends N
• 5 letters starting B

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.