nun
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, nun sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 15bun, fun
What it means
- nouna woman religious
- nouna buoy resembling a cone
- nounthe 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as n ah1 n — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
42 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- anyone
- begun
- bun
- done
- everyone
- fun
- grandson
- gun
- homespun
- megaton
- none
- one
- outdone
- outrun
- overdone
- overrun
- pun
- redone
- run
- shotgun
- shun
- someone
- son
- spun
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 3 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 2% of the 972 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.