loons
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, loons sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3solon, nolos
- One letter away
- 17boons, goons
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and loons is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is loon — a worthless lazy fellow. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l uw1 n z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
30 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- afternoons
- baboons
- balloons
- boons
- cartoons
- cocoons
- croons
- dunes
- goons
- harpoons
- honeymoons
- lagoons
- monsoons
- moons
- platoons
- pontoons
- prunes
- raccoons
- runes
- saloons
- spoons
- tablespoons
- teaspoons
- tunes
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: solon, nolos, snool.
One letter away
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.