cones
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, cones sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1scone
- One letter away
- 26bones, canes
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and cones is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is con — an argument opposed to a proposal. 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 k 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
- bones
- clones
- condones
- 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: scone.
One letter away
- bones
- canes
- codes
- cokes
- comes
- copes
- cores
- coves
- hones
- tones
- zones
- coned
- coney
- conks
- cotes
- coxes
- jones
- pones
- cines
- coles
- conns
- coses
- cozes
- nones
- sones
- conus
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.