span
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, span sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3naps, pans
- One letter away
- 10scan, spar
What it means
- nounthe complete duration of something
- nounthe distance or interval between two points
- nountwo items of the same kind
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s p ae1 n — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
87 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- an
- ban
- began
- bran
- businessman
- can
- caravan
- clan
- doorman
- fan
- fisherman
- madman
- mailman
- man
- middleman
- milkman
- outran
- overran
- pan
- plan
- ran
- sandman
- saucepan
- scan
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: naps, pans, snap.
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.