prune
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, prune 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
- 2prone, prude
What it means
- noundried plum
- verbcultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- verbweed out unwanted or unnecessary things
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p r uw1 n — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
52 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- afternoon
- baboon
- balloon
- bassoon
- boon
- buffoon
- cartoon
- cocoon
- croon
- dune
- festoon
- goon
- harpoon
- hewn
- honeymoon
- immune
- inopportune
- lagoon
- lampoon
- loon
- maroon
- monsoon
- moon
- noon
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
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.