gowns
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, gowns sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 5downs, goons
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and gowns is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is gown — a woman's dress, usually with a close-fitting bodice and a long flared skirt, often worn on formal occasions. 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 g aw1 n z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
22 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- breakdowns
- browns
- clowns
- countdowns
- crowns
- downs
- drowns
- frowns
- nouns
- showdowns
- touchdowns
- towns
- crackdowns
- drawdowns
- hometowns
- markdowns
- shakedowns
- shantytowns
- shutdowns
- slowdowns
- closedowns
- downtowns
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.