tinny
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, tinny sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 7ninny, finny
What it means
- adjectiveof or containing tin
- adjectiveof very poor quality; flimsy
- adjectivethin and metallic in sound; lacking resonance
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t ih1 n iy0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
10 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- guinea
- ninny
- skinny
- ginny
- ignominy
- mini
- spinney
- hinny
- swinney
- minny
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- ninny
- finny
- ginny
- pinny
- tunny
- hinny
- minny
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.