paint

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

3inapt, patin

One letter away

6faint, pains

• nouna substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating
• noun(basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court
• nounmakeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p ey1 n t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• acquaint
• complaint
• constraint
• faint
• feint
• quaint
• restraint
• saint
• taint
• repaint

3 other words use exactly these letters: inapt, patin, pinta.

• faint
• pains
• point
• print
• saint
• taint

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts P14,566
• Starts PA2,370
• Ends T
• 5 letters starting P

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.