scar
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, scar sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2arcs, cars
- One letter away
- 10scab, scan
What it means
- nouna mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue
- nounan indication of damage
- verbmark with a scar
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s k aa1 r — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
65 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- afar
- ajar
- are
- bar
- bazaar
- bizarre
- boxcar
- car
- caviar
- char
- cigar
- crowbar
- czar
- far
- guitar
- jaguar
- jar
- mar
- par
- radar
- registrar
- repertoire
- reservoir
- seminar
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: arcs, cars.
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.