stony
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, stony sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 4stone, story
What it means
- adjectiveabounding in rocks or stones
- adjectiveshowing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings
- adjectivehard as granite
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s t ow1 n iy0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
30 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- acrimony
- alimony
- baloney
- bologna
- bony
- ceremony
- crony
- macaroni
- matrimony
- patrimony
- phony
- testimony
- abalone
- cannelloni
- chalcedony
- coney
- palimony
- parsimony
- pepperoni
- rigatoni
- sanctimony
- spumoni
- telephony
- tony
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
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.