swan

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, swan sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

4awns, wans

One letter away

9scan, span

• nounstately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult
• verbto declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
• verbmove about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s w aa1 n — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

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
• pecan
• pentagon
• phenomenon
• polygon
• proton
• salon
• spawn

4 other words use exactly these letters: awns, wans, sawn, snaw.

• scan
• span
• swab
• swam
• swap
• swat
• sway
• swag
• hwan

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts S18,988
• Starts SW519
• Ends N
• 4 letters starting S

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.