seven

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

2evens, neves

One letter away

2semen, sever

• adjectivebeing one more than six
• nounthe cardinal number that is the sum of six and one
• nounone of four playing cards in a deck with seven pips on the face

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

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

• eleven
• heaven
• devon
• leaven

2 other words use exactly these letters: evens, neves.

The whole set on one page.

• semen
• sever

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts S18,988
• Starts SE1,866
• Ends N
• 5 letters starting S

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.