water
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, water sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1tawer
- One letter away
- 17cater, eater
What it means
- nounbinary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent
- nounthe part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean)
- nounonce thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour phlegm
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as w ao1 t er0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
15 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- breakwater
- daughter
- freshwater
- granddaughter
- manslaughter
- rainwater
- slaughter
- underwater
- backwater
- floodwater
- stepdaughter
- tidewater
- wastewater
- deepwater
- headwater
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: tawer.
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.