tones
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, tones sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 5notes, onset
- One letter away
- 22bones, cones
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and tones is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is ton — a United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds. 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 t ow1 n z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
64 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- backbones
- baritones
- bemoans
- bones
- clones
- condones
- cones
- cyclones
- drones
- flagstones
- gravestones
- groans
- hailstones
- headstones
- hones
- hormones
- keystones
- loans
- megaphones
- microphones
- milestones
- moans
- overtones
- owns
Its letters, rearranged
5 other words use exactly these letters: notes, onset, stone, seton, steno.
One letter away
- bones
- cones
- hones
- tomes
- toned
- tongs
- totes
- tunes
- zones
- jones
- pones
- tines
- tokes
- toner
- nones
- sones
- toles
- toney
- tonus
- topes
- tores
- tynes
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.