par
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, par sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1rap
- One letter away
- 27bar, car
What it means
- noun(golf) the standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course
- nouna state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced
- verbmake a score (on a hole) equal to par
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p aa1 r — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
65 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- afar
- ajar
- are
- bar
- bazaar
- bizarre
- boxcar
- car
- caviar
- char
- cigar
- crowbar
- czar
- far
- guitar
- jaguar
- jar
- mar
- radar
- registrar
- repertoire
- reservoir
- scar
- seminar
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: rap.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 3% 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.