defer
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, defer sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 2freed, refed
- One letter away
- 2deter, refer
What it means
- verbhold back to a later time
- verbyield to another's wish or opinion
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as d ih0 f er1 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
57 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- amateur
- ampere
- blur
- burr
- chauffeur
- cleverer
- concur
- confer
- connoisseur
- cur
- descriptor
- deter
- fir
- fur
- her
- incur
- infer
- inter
- liqueur
- occur
- per
- prefer
- purr
- recur
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: freed, refed.
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.