guns
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, guns sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3gnus, snug
- One letter away
- 18buns, gins
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and guns is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is gun — a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel). 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 ah1 n z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
23 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- buns
- grandsons
- megatons
- nuns
- ones
- outruns
- overruns
- puns
- runs
- shotguns
- shuns
- sons
- stuns
- suns
- tonnes
- tons
- blowguns
- duns
- handguns
- outguns
- reruns
- funs
- muns
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: gnus, snug, sung.
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.