dared
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, dared sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3dread, adder
- One letter away
- 16bared, cared
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and dared is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is dare — a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy. 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 d eh1 r d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
30 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- aired
- bared
- blared
- cared
- chaired
- compared
- declared
- despaired
- erred
- fared
- flared
- glared
- haired
- impaired
- paired
- pared
- prepared
- repaired
- scared
- shared
- snared
- spared
- squared
- stared
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: dread, adder, readd.
One letter away
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.