stern
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, stern sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3rents, terns
- One letter away
- 2stein, stere
What it means
- adjectiveof a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect
- adjectivenot to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
- adjectivesevere and unremitting in making demands
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s t er1 n — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
26 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- adjourn
- burn
- churn
- concern
- discern
- earn
- fern
- heartburn
- learn
- overturn
- return
- spurn
- sunburn
- taciturn
- turn
- upturn
- urn
- yearn
- downturn
- kern
- unconcern
- durn
- erne
- hern
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: rents, terns, nerts.
One letter away
- stein
- stere
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.