wings
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, wings sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1swing
- One letter away
- 13kings, rings
What it means
- nouna means of flight or ascent
- nounstylized bird wings worn as an insignia by qualified pilots or air crew members
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as w ih1 ng z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
19 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- brings
- clings
- flings
- hamstrings
- kings
- playthings
- rings
- sings
- slings
- springs
- stings
- strings
- swings
- things
- dings
- lings
- pings
- upswings
- forewings
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: swing.
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.