keen
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, keen sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1knee
- One letter away
- 11been, keel
What it means
- adjectivehaving or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
- adjectiveintense or sharp
- adjectiveexcellent
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k 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
- dean
- demean
- eighteen
- evergreen
- fifteen
- foreseen
- fourteen
- gasoline
- gene
- glean
- green
- guillotine
- hygiene
- intervene
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: knee.
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.