resin

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

5reins, rinse

One letter away

5rosin, renin

• nounany of a class of solid or semisolid viscous substances obtained either as exudations from certain plants or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r eh1 z ah0 n — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

5 other words use exactly these letters: reins, rinse, risen, siren, serin.

The whole set on one page.

• rosin
• renin
• resid
• rewin
• repin

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts R10,159
• Starts RE6,681
• Ends N
• 5 letters starting R

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.