eager
The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, eager sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3agree, eagre
- One letter away
- 11eater, lager
What it means
- adjectivehaving or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy
- nouna high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as iy1 g er0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
5 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- meager
- beleaguer
- leaguer
- overeager
- eger
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: agree, eagre, ragee.
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.