horn
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, horn sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 10born, corn
What it means
- nouna noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it
- nounone of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates
- nouna noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as hh ao1 r n — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
40 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- adorn
- airborne
- born
- borne
- corn
- forewarn
- forlorn
- forsworn
- inborn
- morn
- mourn
- popcorn
- reborn
- scorn
- shorn
- stillborn
- sworn
- thorn
- torn
- unborn
- unicorn
- warn
- worn
- bighorn
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
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.