tutor
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, tutor sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1trout
- One letter away
- 1tumor
What it means
- nouna person who gives private instruction (as in singing, acting, etc.)
- verbbe a tutor to someone; give individual instruction
- verbact as a guardian to someone
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t uw1 t er0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
25 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- commuter
- computer
- cuter
- hooter
- microcomputer
- minicomputer
- neuter
- persecutor
- pewter
- prosecutor
- router
- scooter
- suitor
- supercomputer
- looter
- polluter
- recruiter
- rooter
- shooter
- telecommuter
- troubleshooter
- cooter
- souter
- suiter
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: trout.
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.