wary
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, wary sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1awry
- One letter away
- 16vary, ward
What it means
- adjectivemarked by keen caution and watchful prudence
- adjectiveopenly distrustful and unwilling to confide
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as w eh1 r iy0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
162 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- adversary
- airy
- arbitrary
- beneficiary
- berry
- blackberry
- blueberry
- bury
- canary
- capillary
- cemetery
- cherry
- commentary
- contemporary
- corollary
- coronary
- cranberry
- culinary
- customary
- dairy
- dictionary
- dietary
- dignitary
- disciplinary
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: awry.
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.