recur

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, recur sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the second

Anagrams

1curer

One letter away

1recut

• verbhappen or occur again
• verbreturn in thought or speech to something
• verbhave recourse to

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r ih0 k er1 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.

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
• per
• prefer
• purr

One other word use exactly these letters: curer.

• recut

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts R10,159
• Starts RE6,681
• Ends R
• 5 letters starting R

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.