semen
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, semen sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3mense, mesne
- One letter away
- 2seven, semes
What it means
- nounthe thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s iy1 m ah0 n — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
6 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- daemon
- demon
- seaman
- seamen
- freeman
- leman
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: mense, mesne, neems.
One letter away
- seven
- semes
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.