canon

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, canon sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

1ancon

One letter away

4canoe, capon

• nouna rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field of art or philosophy
• nouna priest who is a member of a cathedral chapter
• nouna ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k ae1 n ah0 n — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

1 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• cannon

One other word use exactly these letters: ancon.

• canoe
• capon
• fanon
• cajon

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts C16,229
• Starts CA3,002
• Ends N
• 5 letters starting C

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.