spurs
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, spurs sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 7slurs, sours
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and spurs is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is spur — a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s p er1 z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
34 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- amateurs
- amperes
- blurs
- chauffeurs
- concurs
- confers
- connoisseurs
- defers
- descriptors
- deters
- firs
- furs
- hers
- incurs
- infers
- liqueurs
- occurs
- prefers
- purrs
- refers
- saboteurs
- slurs
- stirs
- transfers
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
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.