chain

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

1china

One letter away

1chair

• nouna series of things depending on each other as if linked together
• noun(chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule)
• nouna series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ch ey1 n — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• abstain
• airplane
• arcane
• arraign
• ascertain
• attain
• biplane
• brain
• campaign
• cane
• cellophane
• champagne
• cocaine
• complain
• constrain
• contain
• crane
• deign
• detain
• disdain
• domain
• drain
• entertain
• explain

One other word use exactly these letters: china.

The whole set on one page.

• chair

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts C16,229
• Starts CH2,182
• Ends N
• 5 letters starting C

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.