pans
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, pans sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3naps, snap
- One letter away
- 26bans, cans
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and pans is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is pan — cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel. 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 p ae1 n z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
20 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bans
- cans
- caravans
- clans
- fans
- mans
- pecans
- plans
- scans
- sedans
- spans
- tans
- vans
- afghans
- bedpans
- caftans
- japans
- minivans
- sans
- trans
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: naps, snap, span.
One letter away
- bans
- cans
- fans
- mans
- pads
- pals
- pane
- pang
- pant
- pars
- pass
- pats
- paws
- pays
- pens
- pins
- puns
- tans
- vans
- paps
- sans
- pacs
- pams
- pons
- wans
- nans
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.