turn
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, turn sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1runt
- One letter away
- 9burn, torn
What it means
- nouna circular segment of a curve
- nounthe act of changing or reversing the direction of the course
- noun(game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t er1 n — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
26 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- adjourn
- burn
- churn
- concern
- discern
- earn
- fern
- heartburn
- learn
- overturn
- return
- spurn
- stern
- sunburn
- taciturn
- upturn
- urn
- yearn
- downturn
- kern
- unconcern
- durn
- erne
- hern
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: runt.
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.