phony
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, phony sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 4peony, phone
What it means
- adjectivefraudulent; having a misleading appearance
- nouna person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as f ow1 n iy0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
30 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- acrimony
- alimony
- baloney
- bologna
- bony
- ceremony
- crony
- macaroni
- matrimony
- patrimony
- stony
- testimony
- abalone
- cannelloni
- chalcedony
- coney
- palimony
- parsimony
- pepperoni
- rigatoni
- sanctimony
- spumoni
- telephony
- tony
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.
Lists it belongs to
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.