ounce

The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, ounce 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

1dunce

• nouna unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a troy pound
• nouna unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound or 16 drams or 28.349 grams
• nounlarge feline of upland central Asia having long thick whitish fur

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as aw1 n s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• announce
• bounce
• denounce
• flounce
• pounce
• pronounce
• renounce
• trounce
• mispronounce

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.

• dunce

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts O5,843
• Starts OU1,342
• Ends E
• 5 letters starting O

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.