dunce
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, dunce sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- —not in the pronouncing dictionary
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 3dance, ounce
What it means
- nouna stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence
How it sounds
Not one of the 50,962 words of ours that the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary covers, so this page prints no syllable count, no stress and no rhymes for it.
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
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.