gun
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, gun sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1gnu
- One letter away
- 19bun, fun
What it means
- nouna weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)
- nounlarge but transportable armament
- nouna person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as g ah1 n — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
42 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- anyone
- begun
- bun
- done
- everyone
- fun
- grandson
- homespun
- megaton
- none
- nun
- one
- outdone
- outrun
- overdone
- overrun
- pun
- redone
- run
- shotgun
- shun
- someone
- son
- spun
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: gnu.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 2% of the 972 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.