widen

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

2wined, dwine

One letter away

3wider, wides

• verbbecome broader or wider or more extensive
• verbmake (clothes) larger
• verbmake wider

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as w ay1 d ah0 n — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

2 other words use exactly these letters: wined, dwine.

The whole set on one page.

• wider
• wides
• wizen

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts W3,694
• Starts WI770
• Ends N
• 5 letters starting W

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.