poor
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, poor sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 10boor, door
What it means
- adjectivedeserving or inciting pity
- adjectivehaving little money or few possessions
- adjectivecharacterized by or indicating poverty
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p uw1 r — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
7 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- doer
- grandeur
- velour
- amour
- raconteur
- voyeur
- tandoor
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
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.