gnus

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, gnus sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

—not in the pronouncing dictionary

Anagrams

3guns, snug

One letter away

2anus, onus

Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and gnus is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is gnu — large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.

Not one of the 50,962 words of ours that the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary covers, so this page prints no syllable count, no stress and no rhymes for it.

3 other words use exactly these letters: guns, snug, sung.

The whole set on one page.

• anus
• onus

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts G5,589
• Starts GN66
• Ends S
• 4 letters starting G

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.