yarn
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, yarn sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1nary
- One letter away
- 10barn, darn
What it means
- nounthe act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events
- nouna fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving
- verbtell or spin a yarn
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as y aa1 r n — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
4 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: nary.
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.