lion

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, lion sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

3loin, lino

One letter away

6loon, lien

• nounlarge gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the male
• nouna celebrity who is lionized (much sought after)

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l ay1 ah0 n — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

5 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• dandelion
• ion
• cation
• mayan
• scion

3 other words use exactly these letters: loin, lino, noil.

The whole set on one page.

• loon
• lien
• limn
• cion
• linn
• pion

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts L5,055
• Starts LI1,222
• Ends N
• 4 letters starting L

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.