loon
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, loon sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1nolo
- One letter away
- 20boon, goon
What it means
- nouna worthless lazy fellow
- nounlarge somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the Northern Hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes
- nouna person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l uw1 n — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
52 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- afternoon
- baboon
- balloon
- bassoon
- boon
- buffoon
- cartoon
- cocoon
- croon
- dune
- festoon
- goon
- harpoon
- hewn
- honeymoon
- immune
- inopportune
- lagoon
- lampoon
- maroon
- monsoon
- moon
- noon
- opportune
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: nolo.
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.