vanes
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, vanes sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2naves, avens
- One letter away
- 15canes, lanes
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and vanes is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is van — any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts). 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 v ey1 n z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
57 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- attains
- brains
- campaigns
- canes
- chains
- champagnes
- complains
- constrains
- contains
- cranes
- deigns
- disdains
- domains
- drains
- entertains
- explains
- gains
- grains
- hurricanes
- lanes
- mains
- maintains
- manes
- membranes
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: naves, avens.
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.