puns
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, puns sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1spun
- One letter away
- 27buns, guns
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and puns is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is pun — a humorous play on words. 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 ah1 n z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
23 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- buns
- grandsons
- guns
- megatons
- nuns
- ones
- outruns
- overruns
- runs
- shotguns
- shuns
- sons
- stuns
- suns
- tonnes
- tons
- blowguns
- duns
- handguns
- outguns
- reruns
- funs
- muns
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: spun.
One letter away
- buns
- guns
- nuns
- pans
- pens
- pins
- punk
- punt
- puny
- pups
- puss
- puts
- runs
- suns
- duns
- pubs
- puds
- pugs
- tuns
- funs
- huns
- pons
- puls
- puna
- pung
- muns
- purs
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.