ear
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, ear sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2are, era
- One letter away
- 16bar, car
What it means
- nounthe sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
- noungood hearing
- nounthe externally visible cartilaginous structure of the external ear
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as iy1 r — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
16 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- endear
- hear
- here
- overhear
- tier
- bier
- buccaneer
- ionosphere
- mishear
- multiyear
- musketeer
- puppeteer
- rehear
- seer
- weir
- keir
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: are, era.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 2% of the 972 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.