buns
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, buns sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2snub, nubs
- One letter away
- 26bans, bins
What it means
- nounthe fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b ah1 n z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
23 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- grandsons
- guns
- megatons
- nuns
- ones
- outruns
- overruns
- puns
- runs
- shotguns
- shuns
- sons
- stuns
- suns
- tonnes
- tons
- blowguns
- duns
- handguns
- outguns
- reruns
- funs
- muns
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: snub, nubs.
One letter away
- bans
- bins
- buds
- bugs
- bums
- bung
- bunk
- buys
- guns
- nuns
- puns
- runs
- suns
- bubs
- bunt
- burs
- buss
- buts
- duns
- tuns
- bens
- bund
- bunn
- funs
- huns
- muns
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.