salon
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, salon sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 2loans, solan
- One letter away
- 3talon, solon
What it means
- noungallery where works of art can be displayed
- nouna shop where hairdressers and beauticians work
- nounelegant sitting room where guests are received
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s ah0 l aa1 n — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
64 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- baton
- con
- crayon
- don
- epsilon
- forgone
- hexagon
- john
- lexicon
- liaison
- marathon
- moron
- neutron
- nylon
- octagon
- on
- paragon
- pecan
- pentagon
- phenomenon
- polygon
- proton
- spawn
- swan
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: loans, solan.
One letter away
- talon
- solon
- salol
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.