van
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, van sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 17ban, can
What it means
- nounany creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
- nounthe leading units moving at the head of an army
- noun(Great Britain) a closed railroad car that carries baggage or freight
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as v ae1 n — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
87 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- an
- ban
- began
- bran
- businessman
- can
- caravan
- clan
- doorman
- fan
- fisherman
- madman
- mailman
- man
- middleman
- milkman
- outran
- overran
- pan
- plan
- ran
- sandman
- saucepan
- scan
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 3 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 2% of the 972 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.