ocean
The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, ocean sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1canoe
- One letter away
- 1octan
What it means
- nouna large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere
- nounanything apparently limitless in quantity or volume
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ow1 sh ah0 n — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
10 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- commotion
- demotion
- devotion
- emotion
- locomotion
- lotion
- motion
- notion
- potion
- promotion
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: canoe.
One letter away
- octan
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.