shear
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, shear sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 4hares, hears
- One letter away
- 7sheaf, sheer
What it means
- noun(physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves
- nouna large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it
- verbcut with shears
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as sh ih1 r — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
91 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- adhere
- appear
- atmosphere
- auctioneer
- austere
- beer
- career
- cashier
- cavalier
- chandelier
- cheer
- clear
- commandeer
- dear
- deer
- disappear
- emir
- engineer
- fear
- financier
- frontier
- gear
- hemisphere
- insincere
Its letters, rearranged
4 other words use exactly these letters: hares, hears, share, rheas.
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.