leer
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, leer sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- —not in the pronouncing dictionary
- Anagrams
- 1reel
- One letter away
- 13beer, deer
What it means
- nouna facial expression of contempt or scorn; the upper lip curls
- nouna suggestive or sneering look or grin
- verblook suggestively or obliquely; look or gaze with a sly, immodest, or malign expression
How it sounds
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.
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: reel.
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.