hang
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, hang 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
- 16bang, fang
What it means
- nouna special way of doing something
- nounthe way a garment hangs
- nouna gymnastic exercise performed on the rings or horizontal bar or parallel bars when the gymnast's weight is supported by the arms
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as hh ae1 ng — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
24 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bang
- boomerang
- clang
- fang
- gang
- harangue
- mustang
- overhang
- pang
- rang
- sang
- slang
- sprang
- tang
- chang
- dang
- lang
- vang
- yang
- liang
- spang
- stang
- strang
- whang
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.