yen
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, yen sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 19den, fen
What it means
- nouna yearning for something or to do something
- nounthe basic unit of money in Japan; equal to 100 sen
- verbhave a desire for something or someone who is not present
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as y 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
- ten
- then
- when
- wren
- airmen
- anchormen
- ben
- biogen
- bullpen
- cayenne
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 3 letters.
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.