ferns
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, ferns sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 6ferny, terns
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and ferns is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is fern — any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores. 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 f er1 n z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
22 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- adjourns
- burns
- churns
- concerns
- discerns
- earns
- learns
- overturns
- returns
- spurns
- sterns
- turns
- upturns
- yearns
- downturns
- sauternes
- tern
- terns
- kernes
- kerns
- querns
- ternes
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- ferny
- terns
- firns
- herns
- kerns
- feres
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.