once
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, once sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1cone
- One letter away
- 0none in this dictionary
What it means
- adverbon one occasion
- adverbas soon as
- adverbat a previous time
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as w ah1 n s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: cone.
One letter away
No word in this dictionary differs from it by exactly one letter.
Same length, one position changed.
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.