chore

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, chore sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

2ocher, ochre

One letter away

7choke, chord

• nouna specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ch ao1 r — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• abhor
• adore
• ashore
• before
• boar
• bore
• carnivore
• commodore
• core
• corps
• deplore
• dinosaur
• door
• drawer
• drugstore
• encore
• evermore
• explore
• eyesore
• floor
• folklore
• for
• fore
• four

2 other words use exactly these letters: ocher, ochre.

• choke
• chord
• chose
• shore
• whore
• chare
• crore

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts C16,229
• Starts CH2,182
• Ends E
• 5 letters starting C

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.