adore
The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, adore sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 2oared, oread
- One letter away
- 4adobe, adorn
What it means
- verblove intensely
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ah0 d ao1 r — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
101 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abhor
- ashore
- before
- boar
- bore
- carnivore
- chore
- commodore
- core
- corps
- deplore
- dinosaur
- door
- drawer
- drugstore
- encore
- evermore
- explore
- eyesore
- floor
- folklore
- for
- fore
- four
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: oared, oread.
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.