drone
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, drone sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1redon
- One letter away
- 6drove, prone
What it means
- nounstingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen
- nounan unchanging intonation
- nounsomeone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as d r ow1 n — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
125 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- alone
- atone
- backbone
- baritone
- bemoan
- blown
- bone
- clone
- collarbone
- condone
- cone
- cyclone
- dethrone
- disown
- flagstone
- flown
- gravestone
- grindstone
- groan
- grown
- hailstone
- headstone
- hone
- hormone
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: redon.
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.