waned
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, waned sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3awned, dawen
- One letter away
- 16caned, waded
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and waned is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is wan — (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble. 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 w ey1 n d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
52 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abstained
- arraigned
- ascertained
- attained
- brained
- campaigned
- caned
- chained
- complained
- constrained
- contained
- craned
- deigned
- detained
- disdained
- drained
- entertained
- explained
- feigned
- gained
- harebrained
- ingrained
- maintained
- obtained
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: awned, dawen, dewan.
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.