cane
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, cane sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1acne
- One letter away
- 25cafe, cage
What it means
- nouna stick that people can lean on to help them walk
- nouna strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane
- nouna stiff switch, used to hit (usually students) as punishment
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k ey1 n — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
121 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abstain
- airplane
- arcane
- arraign
- ascertain
- attain
- biplane
- brain
- campaign
- cellophane
- chain
- champagne
- cocaine
- complain
- constrain
- contain
- crane
- deign
- detain
- disdain
- domain
- drain
- entertain
- explain
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: acne.
One letter away
- cafe
- cage
- cake
- came
- cans
- cant
- cape
- care
- case
- cave
- cone
- lane
- mane
- pane
- sane
- vane
- wane
- bane
- cine
- jane
- kane
- cade
- cate
- fane
- gane
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.