town
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, town sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2wont, nowt
- One letter away
- 9down, gown
What it means
- nounan urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city
- nounthe people living in a municipality smaller than a city
- nounan administrative division of a county
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t aw1 n — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
41 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- breakdown
- brown
- clown
- countdown
- crown
- down
- downtown
- drown
- frown
- gown
- letdown
- lowdown
- noun
- renown
- rundown
- showdown
- shutdown
- sundown
- touchdown
- uptown
- boomtown
- clampdown
- comedown
- crackdown
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: wont, nowt.
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.