dean
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, dean sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 11bean, dead
What it means
- nounan administrator in charge of a division of a university or college
- nouna man who is the senior member of a group
- noun(Roman Catholic Church) the head of the College of Cardinals
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as d iy1 n — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
158 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- amphetamine
- aquamarine
- bean
- between
- caffeine
- canteen
- clean
- contravene
- convene
- cuisine
- demean
- eighteen
- evergreen
- fifteen
- foreseen
- fourteen
- gasoline
- gene
- glean
- green
- guillotine
- hygiene
- intervene
- keen
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.