dune
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, dune sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2nude, unde
- One letter away
- 16dine, done
What it means
- nouna ridge of sand created by the wind; found in deserts or near lakes and oceans
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as d uw1 n — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
52 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- afternoon
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- balloon
- bassoon
- boon
- buffoon
- cartoon
- cocoon
- croon
- festoon
- goon
- harpoon
- hewn
- honeymoon
- immune
- inopportune
- lagoon
- lampoon
- loon
- maroon
- monsoon
- moon
- noon
- opportune
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: nude, unde.
One letter away
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.