line
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, line sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1lien
- One letter away
- 29dine, fine
What it means
- nouna formation of people or things one beside another
- nouna mark that is long relative to its width
- nouna formation of people or things one behind another
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l ay1 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.
- airline
- align
- alkaline
- assign
- baseline
- benign
- borderline
- bovine
- brine
- canine
- coastline
- confine
- consign
- deadline
- decline
- define
- design
- dine
- divine
- enshrine
- entwine
- equine
- feline
- fine
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: lien.
One letter away
- dine
- fine
- lane
- lice
- life
- like
- lime
- link
- lint
- live
- lone
- mine
- nine
- pine
- sine
- vine
- wine
- cine
- ling
- lino
- lire
- lite
- tine
- bine
- kine
- linn
- liny
- lune
- lins
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.