zero

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, zero sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

4hero, aero

• adjectiveindicating the absence of any or all units under consideration
• adjectivehaving no measurable or otherwise determinable value
• adjectiveindicating an initial point or origin

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as z ih1 r ow0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

2 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• hero
• subzero

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.

• hero
• aero
• cero
• zerk

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts Z532
• Starts ZE97
• Ends O
• 4 letters starting Z

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.