pecan
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, pecan sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 1pekan
What it means
- nounwood of a pecan tree
- nountree of southern United States and Mexico cultivated for its nuts
- nounsmooth brown oval nut of south central United States
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p ah0 k aa1 n — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
64 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- baton
- con
- crayon
- don
- epsilon
- forgone
- hexagon
- john
- lexicon
- liaison
- marathon
- moron
- neutron
- nylon
- octagon
- on
- paragon
- pentagon
- phenomenon
- polygon
- proton
- salon
- spawn
- swan
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- pekan
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.