learn
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, learn sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1renal
- One letter away
- 3yearn, leary
What it means
- verbgain knowledge or skills
- verbget to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
- verbcommit to memory; learn by heart
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l er1 n — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
26 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- adjourn
- burn
- churn
- concern
- discern
- earn
- fern
- heartburn
- overturn
- return
- spurn
- stern
- sunburn
- taciturn
- turn
- upturn
- urn
- yearn
- downturn
- kern
- unconcern
- durn
- erne
- hern
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: renal.
One letter away
- yearn
- leary
- lears
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.