shun
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, shun sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1huns
- One letter away
- 5shin, shut
What it means
- verbavoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of
- verbexpel from a community or group
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as sh ah1 n — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
42 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- anyone
- begun
- bun
- done
- everyone
- fun
- grandson
- gun
- homespun
- megaton
- none
- nun
- one
- outdone
- outrun
- overdone
- overrun
- pun
- redone
- run
- shotgun
- someone
- son
- spun
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: huns.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.