pare
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, pare sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 4pear, rape
- One letter away
- 26bare, care
What it means
- verbdecrease gradually or bit by bit
- verbcut small bits or pare shavings from
- verbremove the skin from
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p eh1 r — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
113 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- affair
- air
- anywhere
- armchair
- aware
- bare
- bear
- beware
- blare
- care
- chair
- compare
- dare
- debonair
- declare
- despair
- disrepair
- elsewhere
- err
- everywhere
- fair
- fanfare
- fare
- firmware
Its letters, rearranged
4 other words use exactly these letters: pear, rape, reap, aper.
One letter away
- bare
- care
- dare
- fare
- hare
- mare
- pace
- page
- pale
- pane
- park
- pars
- part
- pate
- pave
- pore
- pure
- pyre
- rare
- para
- parr
- tare
- ware
- pard
- pase
- yare
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.