spare
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, spare sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 11pares, parse
- One letter away
- 14scare, share
What it means
- adjectivethin and fit
- adjectivemore than is needed, desired, or required
- adjectivenot taken up by scheduled activities
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s p eh1 r — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
113 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- affair
- air
- anywhere
- armchair
- aware
- bare
- bear
- beware
- blare
- care
- chair
- compare
- dare
- debonair
- declare
- despair
- disrepair
- elsewhere
- err
- everywhere
- fair
- fanfare
- fare
- firmware
Its letters, rearranged
11 other words use exactly these letters: pares, parse, pears, rapes, reaps, spear, apers, apres, asper, prase, presa.
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.