tar
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, tar sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2art, rat
- One letter away
- 29bar, car
What it means
- nounany of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
- nouna man who serves as a sailor
- verbcoat with tar
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t aa1 r — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
65 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- afar
- ajar
- are
- bar
- bazaar
- bizarre
- boxcar
- car
- caviar
- char
- cigar
- crowbar
- czar
- far
- guitar
- jaguar
- jar
- mar
- par
- radar
- registrar
- repertoire
- reservoir
- scar
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: art, rat.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 3% of the 972 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.