nose

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, nose sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

4eons, ones

One letter away

12dose, hose

• nounthe organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals
• nouna front that resembles a human nose (especially the front of an aircraft)
• nounthe front or forward projection of a tool or weapon

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as n ow1 z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

139 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• arose
• bestows
• blows
• boroughs
• bulldoze
• bungalows
• cameos
• cargoes
• chose
• commandos
• compose
• crossbows
• crows
• decompose
• disclose
• dispose
• dominoes
• doze
• elbows
• embryos
• enclose
• expose
• falsettos
• flows

4 other words use exactly these letters: eons, ones, sone, noes.

The whole set on one page.

• dose
• hose
• lose
• node
• none
• nosy
• note
• pose
• rose
• nome
• nope
• nosh

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts N4,392
• Starts NO2,132
• Ends E
• 4 letters starting N

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.