adorn
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, adorn sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 1radon
- One letter away
- 3acorn, adore
What it means
- verbmake more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.
- verbbe beautiful to look at
- verbfurnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ah0 d ao1 r n — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
40 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- airborne
- born
- borne
- corn
- forewarn
- forlorn
- forsworn
- horn
- inborn
- morn
- mourn
- popcorn
- reborn
- scorn
- shorn
- stillborn
- sworn
- thorn
- torn
- unborn
- unicorn
- warn
- worn
- bighorn
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: radon.
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.