ajar
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, ajar sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 1raja
- One letter away
- 3afar, agar
What it means
- adjectiveslightly open
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ah0 jh aa1 r — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
65 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- afar
- are
- bar
- bazaar
- bizarre
- boxcar
- car
- caviar
- char
- cigar
- crowbar
- czar
- far
- guitar
- jaguar
- jar
- mar
- par
- radar
- registrar
- repertoire
- reservoir
- scar
- seminar
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: raja.
One letter away
- afar
- agar
- alar
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.