tang
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, tang sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1gnat
- One letter away
- 16bang, fang
What it means
- nouna tart spicy quality
- nounthe taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
- nouna common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t ae1 ng — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
24 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bang
- boomerang
- clang
- fang
- gang
- hang
- harangue
- mustang
- overhang
- pang
- rang
- sang
- slang
- sprang
- chang
- dang
- lang
- vang
- yang
- liang
- spang
- stang
- strang
- whang
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: gnat.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.