tone
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, tone sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1note
- One letter away
- 22bone, cone
What it means
- nounthe quality of a person's voice
- noun(linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages
- noun(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t 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
One other word use exactly these letters: note.
One letter away
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.