swans
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, swans sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1snaws
- One letter away
- 9scans, spans
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and swans is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is swan — stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s w aa1 n z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
36 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- batons
- bronze
- cons
- crayons
- dons
- icons
- lexicons
- liaisons
- marathons
- morons
- neutrons
- pentagons
- photons
- protons
- salons
- spawns
- ailerons
- amazons
- antiphons
- axons
- echelons
- hogans
- hons
- johns
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: snaws.
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.