horse
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, horse sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 4shore, hoers
- One letter away
- 10horde, house
What it means
- nounsolid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
- nouna padded gymnastic apparatus on legs
- nountroops trained to fight on horseback
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as hh ao1 r s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
22 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- coarse
- concourse
- course
- divorce
- endorse
- enforce
- force
- hoarse
- intercourse
- reinforce
- remorse
- source
- workforce
- clotheshorse
- morse
- perforce
- racehorse
- workhorse
- bourse
- corse
- counterforce
- midcourse
Its letters, rearranged
4 other words use exactly these letters: shore, hoers, heros, shoer.
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.