enema

The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, enema sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

3stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

2enemy, edema

• nounan injection of a liquid through the anus to stimulate evacuation; sometimes used for diagnostic purposes

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as eh1 n ah0 m ah0 — 3 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

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

• enemy
• edema

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts E7,067
• Starts EN1,433
• Ends A
• 5 letters starting E

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.