core
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, core sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1cero
- One letter away
- 30bore, care
What it means
- nouna small group of indispensable persons or things
- nounthe center of an object
- nounthe central part of the Earth
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k 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
- chore
- commodore
- corps
- deplore
- dinosaur
- door
- drawer
- drugstore
- encore
- evermore
- explore
- eyesore
- floor
- folklore
- for
- fore
- four
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: cero.
One letter away
- bore
- care
- code
- coke
- come
- cone
- cope
- cord
- cork
- corn
- cove
- cure
- fore
- gore
- lore
- more
- pore
- sore
- tore
- wore
- cole
- corm
- cory
- cote
- yore
- cere
- cire
- corf
- dore
- kore
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.