lance
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, lance sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1clean
- One letter away
- 4dance, hance
What it means
- nouna long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
- nounan implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
- nouna surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l ae1 n s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
20 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- advance
- askance
- chance
- circumstance
- dance
- enhance
- expanse
- finance
- freelance
- glance
- perchance
- prance
- romance
- stance
- trance
- happenstance
- refinance
- hance
- nance
- rance
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: clean.
One letter away
- dance
- hance
- nance
- rance
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.