mania

The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, mania sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

3stress on the first

Anagrams

3amain, anima

One letter away

5manic, maria

• nounan irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
• nouna mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as m ey1 n iy0 ah0 — 3 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• megalomania

3 other words use exactly these letters: amain, anima, amnia.

• manic
• maria
• mafia
• manna
• manta

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts M9,628
• Starts MA2,347
• Ends A
• 5 letters starting M

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.