aired
The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, aired sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 4aider, irade
- One letter away
- 11aided, ailed
What it means
- adjectiveopen to or abounding in fresh air
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as eh1 r d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
30 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bared
- blared
- cared
- chaired
- compared
- dared
- declared
- despaired
- erred
- fared
- flared
- glared
- haired
- impaired
- paired
- pared
- prepared
- repaired
- scared
- shared
- snared
- spared
- squared
- stared
Its letters, rearranged
4 other words use exactly these letters: aider, irade, redia, deair.
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.