cure
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, cure sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1ecru
- One letter away
- 20care, core
What it means
- nouna medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
- verbprovide a cure for, make healthy again
- verbprepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k y uh1 r — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
32 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- allure
- assure
- boor
- brochure
- contour
- demure
- detour
- endure
- ensure
- immature
- impure
- insure
- lure
- manure
- mature
- miniature
- moor
- obscure
- premature
- procure
- pure
- reassure
- secure
- sure
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: ecru.
One letter away
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.