rears
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, rears sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2rares, raser
- One letter away
- 18bears, dears
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and rears is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is rear — located in or toward the back or rear. 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 r ih1 r z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
56 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- adheres
- appears
- arrears
- auctioneers
- beers
- careers
- cashiers
- cavaliers
- cheers
- clears
- disappears
- ears
- engineers
- fears
- financiers
- frontiers
- gears
- interferes
- mountaineers
- nears
- peers
- perseveres
- piers
- pioneers
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: rares, raser.
One letter away
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.