year
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, year sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3aery, eyra
- One letter away
- 15bear, dear
What it means
- nouna period of time containing 365 (or 366) days
- nouna period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity
- nounthe period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as y ih1 r — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
91 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- adhere
- appear
- atmosphere
- auctioneer
- austere
- beer
- career
- cashier
- cavalier
- chandelier
- cheer
- clear
- commandeer
- dear
- deer
- disappear
- emir
- engineer
- fear
- financier
- frontier
- gear
- hemisphere
- insincere
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: aery, eyra, yare.
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.