burn
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, burn sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 14barn, born
What it means
- nounpain that feels hot as if it were on fire
- nounan injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation
- nouna place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b er1 n — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
26 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- adjourn
- churn
- concern
- discern
- earn
- fern
- heartburn
- learn
- overturn
- return
- spurn
- stern
- sunburn
- taciturn
- turn
- upturn
- urn
- yearn
- downturn
- kern
- unconcern
- durn
- erne
- hern
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.