plane
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, plane sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3panel, penal
- One letter away
- 7place, plank
What it means
- adjectivehaving a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
- nounan aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets
- noun(mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p l ey1 n — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
121 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abstain
- airplane
- arcane
- arraign
- ascertain
- attain
- biplane
- brain
- campaign
- cane
- cellophane
- chain
- champagne
- cocaine
- complain
- constrain
- contain
- crane
- deign
- detain
- disdain
- domain
- drain
- entertain
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: panel, penal, plena.
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.