slain
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, slain sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3nails, snail
- One letter away
- 5plain, stain
What it means
- adjectivekilled; ‘slain’ is formal or literary as in ‘slain warriors’
- nounpeople who have been slain (as in battle)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s 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: nails, snail, anils.
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.