sworn
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, sworn sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 6scorn, shorn
What it means
- adjectivebound by or as if by an oath
- adjectivebound by or stated on oath
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s w ao1 r n — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
40 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- adorn
- airborne
- born
- borne
- corn
- forewarn
- forlorn
- forsworn
- horn
- inborn
- morn
- mourn
- popcorn
- reborn
- scorn
- shorn
- stillborn
- thorn
- torn
- unborn
- unicorn
- warn
- worn
- bighorn
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
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.