dons
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, dons sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1nods
- One letter away
- 25cons, dens
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and dons is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is don — teacher at a university or college (especially at Cambridge or Oxford). The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as d aa1 n z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
36 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- batons
- bronze
- cons
- crayons
- icons
- lexicons
- liaisons
- marathons
- morons
- neutrons
- pentagons
- photons
- protons
- salons
- spawns
- swans
- ailerons
- amazons
- antiphons
- axons
- echelons
- hogans
- hons
- johns
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: nods.
One letter away
- cons
- dens
- dins
- does
- dogs
- done
- dots
- eons
- ions
- sons
- tons
- docs
- dona
- dong
- doss
- duns
- hons
- dols
- doms
- dors
- dows
- fons
- mons
- pons
- wons
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.