per
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, per sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1rep
- One letter away
- 16her, par
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and per is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is pe — the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet. 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 p er1 — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
57 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- amateur
- ampere
- blur
- burr
- chauffeur
- cleverer
- concur
- confer
- connoisseur
- cur
- defer
- descriptor
- deter
- fir
- fur
- her
- incur
- infer
- inter
- liqueur
- occur
- prefer
- purr
- recur
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: rep.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 2% 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.