boons
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, boons sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1boson
- One letter away
- 13books, booms
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and boons is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is boon — very close and convivial. 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 b uw1 n z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
30 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- afternoons
- baboons
- balloons
- cartoons
- cocoons
- croons
- dunes
- goons
- harpoons
- honeymoons
- lagoons
- loons
- monsoons
- moons
- platoons
- pontoons
- prunes
- raccoons
- runes
- saloons
- spoons
- tablespoons
- teaspoons
- tunes
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: boson.
One letter away
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.