sugar

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, sugar sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

3argus, gaurs

One letter away

0none in this dictionary

• nouna white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative
• nounan essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain
• nouninformal terms for money

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as sh uh1 g er0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

3 other words use exactly these letters: argus, gaurs, guars.

No word in this dictionary differs from it by exactly one letter.

Same length, one position changed.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts S18,988
• Starts SU2,886
• Ends R
• 5 letters starting S

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.