dance
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, dance sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2caned, acned
- One letter away
- 5dunce, lance
What it means
- nounan artistic form of nonverbal communication
- nouna party of people assembled for dancing
- nountaking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as d ae1 n s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
20 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- advance
- askance
- chance
- circumstance
- enhance
- expanse
- finance
- freelance
- glance
- lance
- perchance
- prance
- romance
- stance
- trance
- happenstance
- refinance
- hance
- nance
- rance
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: caned, acned.
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.