tuna
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, tuna sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1aunt
- One letter away
- 7tuba, tune
What it means
- nountropical American prickly pear of Jamaica
- nounimportant warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks
- nounany very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t uw1 n ah0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
4 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- kahuna
- luna
- vicuna
- laguna
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: aunt.
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.