shone
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, shone sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2hones, hosen
- One letter away
- 7phone, shine
What it means
Open English WordNet has no entry for shone and no lemma one regular ending away from it. It is in the word list and in the size-ranked tiers, which is all this site knows about it. No definition is invented here.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as sh ow1 n — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
125 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- alone
- atone
- backbone
- baritone
- bemoan
- blown
- bone
- clone
- collarbone
- condone
- cone
- cyclone
- dethrone
- disown
- drone
- flagstone
- flown
- gravestone
- grindstone
- groan
- grown
- hailstone
- headstone
- hone
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: hones, hosen.
One letter away
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.