spire
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, spire sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 7piers, pries
- One letter away
- 10shire, spare
What it means
- nouna tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s p ay1 r — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
25 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- admire
- aspire
- backfire
- dire
- expire
- haywire
- inquire
- inspire
- ire
- lyre
- mire
- perspire
- retire
- shire
- squire
- afire
- brushfire
- esquire
- foxfire
- hellfire
- quire
- reacquire
- rehire
- skier
Its letters, rearranged
7 other words use exactly these letters: piers, pries, peris, speir, spier, prise, ripes.
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.