bones
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, bones sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1ebons
- One letter away
- 22bodes, bonds
What it means
- noun(used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b 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
- clones
- condones
- cones
- cyclones
- drones
- flagstones
- gravestones
- groans
- hailstones
- headstones
- hones
- hormones
- keystones
- loans
- megaphones
- microphones
- milestones
- moans
- overtones
- owns
- phones
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: ebons.
One letter away
- bodes
- bonds
- boned
- bonus
- bores
- boxes
- cones
- hones
- tones
- zones
- banes
- boles
- boner
- bongs
- bonks
- jones
- pones
- benes
- bines
- nones
- sones
- boney
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.