noun

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, noun 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

2noon, nous

• nouna content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action
• nounthe word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as n aw1 n — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

41 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• breakdown
• brown
• clown
• countdown
• crown
• down
• downtown
• drown
• frown
• gown
• letdown
• lowdown
• renown
• rundown
• showdown
• shutdown
• sundown
• touchdown
• town
• uptown
• boomtown
• clampdown
• comedown
• crackdown

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.

• noon
• nous

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts N4,392
• Starts NO2,132
• Ends N
• 4 letters starting N

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.