ten
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, ten sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1net
- One letter away
- 22den, fen
What it means
- adjectivebeing one more than nine
- nounthe cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system
- nounone of four playing cards in a deck with ten pips on the face
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t eh1 n — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
44 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- again
- amen
- businessmen
- den
- fen
- glen
- gunmen
- hen
- ken
- mailmen
- men
- middlemen
- pen
- playpen
- then
- when
- wren
- yen
- airmen
- anchormen
- ben
- biogen
- bullpen
- cayenne
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: net.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 2% of the 972 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.