lions

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, lions sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

3loins, linos

One letter away

6loons, liens

Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and lions is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is lion — large gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the male. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.

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

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

• dandelions
• ions

3 other words use exactly these letters: loins, linos, noils.

The whole set on one page.

• loons
• liens
• limns
• cions
• linns
• pions

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts L5,055
• Starts LI1,222
• Ends S
• 5 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.