firs
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, firs sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1rifs
- One letter away
- 14airs, fibs
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and firs is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is fir — nonresinous wood of a fir tree. 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 f er1 z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
34 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- amateurs
- amperes
- blurs
- chauffeurs
- concurs
- confers
- connoisseurs
- defers
- descriptors
- deters
- furs
- hers
- incurs
- infers
- liqueurs
- occurs
- prefers
- purrs
- refers
- saboteurs
- slurs
- spurs
- stirs
- transfers
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: rifs.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.