cures
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, cures sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 4curse, cruse
- One letter away
- 20cares, cores
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and cures is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is cur — an inferior dog or one of mixed breed. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k y uh1 r z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
18 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- assures
- boors
- brochures
- contours
- detours
- endures
- ensures
- insures
- lures
- matures
- moors
- obscures
- overtures
- reassures
- secures
- tours
- yours
- epicures
Its letters, rearranged
4 other words use exactly these letters: curse, cruse, sucre, ecrus.
One letter away
- cares
- cores
- cubes
- curbs
- curds
- cured
- curls
- lures
- ceres
- curer
- cires
- cukes
- curet
- curns
- currs
- cutes
- mures
- aures
- curfs
- dures
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 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.