aura

The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, aura sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

5dura, jura

• nouna sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure
• nounan indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint
• nouna distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ao1 r ah0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

15 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• flora
• angora
• aurora
• fedora
• hora
• laura
• menorah
• ora
• pandora
• senora
• torah
• bora
• camorra
• mora
• fora

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.

• dura
• jura
• sura
• bura
• mura

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts A10,456
• Starts AU543
• Ends A
• 4 letters starting A

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.