vans
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, vans sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 17bans, cans
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and vans 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 ae1 n z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
20 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bans
- cans
- caravans
- clans
- fans
- mans
- pans
- pecans
- plans
- scans
- sedans
- spans
- tans
- afghans
- bedpans
- caftans
- japans
- minivans
- sans
- trans
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
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.