nouns
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, nouns sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 1noons
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and nouns is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is noun — a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action. 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 n aw1 n z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
22 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- breakdowns
- browns
- clowns
- countdowns
- crowns
- downs
- drowns
- frowns
- gowns
- showdowns
- touchdowns
- towns
- crackdowns
- drawdowns
- hometowns
- markdowns
- shakedowns
- shantytowns
- shutdowns
- slowdowns
- closedowns
- downtowns
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- noons
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.