wan
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, wan sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2awn, naw
- One letter away
- 25ban, can
What it means
- adjective(of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
- adjectiveabnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
- adjectivelacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as w aa1 n — 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.
- baton
- con
- crayon
- don
- epsilon
- forgone
- hexagon
- john
- lexicon
- liaison
- marathon
- moron
- neutron
- nylon
- octagon
- on
- paragon
- pecan
- pentagon
- phenomenon
- polygon
- proton
- salon
- spawn
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: awn, naw.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 3% of the 972 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.