tier
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, tier sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2rite, tire
- One letter away
- 8pier, tied
What it means
- nouna relative position or degree of value in a graded group
- nounany one of two or more competitors who tie one another
- nounone of two or more layers one atop another
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t iy1 r — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
16 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ear
- endear
- hear
- here
- overhear
- bier
- buccaneer
- ionosphere
- mishear
- multiyear
- musketeer
- puppeteer
- rehear
- seer
- weir
- keir
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: rite, tire.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.