soar
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, soar sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3oars, osar
- One letter away
- 10boar, roar
What it means
- nounthe act of rising upward into the air
- verbrise rapidly
- verbfly by means of a hang glider
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s ao1 r — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
101 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abhor
- adore
- ashore
- before
- boar
- bore
- carnivore
- chore
- commodore
- core
- corps
- deplore
- dinosaur
- door
- drawer
- drugstore
- encore
- evermore
- explore
- eyesore
- floor
- folklore
- for
- fore
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: oars, osar, sora.
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.