pores
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, pores sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 5prose, ropes
- One letter away
- 22bores, cores
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and pores is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is pore — any tiny hole admitting passage of a liquid (fluid or gas). 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 ao1 r z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
45 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abhors
- adores
- bores
- carnivores
- chores
- cores
- deplores
- dinosaurs
- doors
- downpours
- drawers
- drugstores
- encores
- explores
- floors
- fours
- gores
- guarantors
- ignores
- implores
- indoors
- oars
- ores
- outdoors
Its letters, rearranged
5 other words use exactly these letters: prose, ropes, poser, repos, spore.
One letter away
- bores
- cores
- fores
- gores
- pares
- pokes
- poles
- pored
- ports
- poses
- pyres
- sores
- mores
- pones
- popes
- poxes
- lores
- pomes
- porks
- porns
- tores
- yores
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 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.