direr

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, direr sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

—not in the pronouncing dictionary

Anagrams

2drier, rider

One letter away

10diner, diver

Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and direr is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is dire — fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.

Not one of the 50,962 words of ours that the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary covers, so this page prints no syllable count, no stress and no rhymes for it.

2 other words use exactly these letters: drier, rider.

The whole set on one page.

• diner
• diver
• darer
• firer
• airer
• dicer
• diker
• dimer
• hirer
• wirer

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts D10,149
• Starts DI3,225
• Ends R
• 5 letters starting D

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.