penis

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

4pines, snipe

One letter away

4pends, lenis

• nounthe male sex organ

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p iy1 n ih0 s — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• cleanness

4 other words use exactly these letters: pines, snipe, spine, peins.

The whole set on one page.

• pends
• lenis
• peris
• penes

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts P14,566
• Starts PE1,928
• Ends S
• 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.