actor

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, actor sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

1taroc

One letter away

0none in this dictionary

• nouna theatrical performer
• nouna person who acts and gets things done

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ae1 k t er0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• benefactor
• chiropractor
• contractor
• factor
• reactor
• tractor
• compactor
• detractor
• malefactor
• refractor
• subcontractor

One other word use exactly these letters: taroc.

No word in this dictionary differs from it by exactly one letter.

Same length, one position changed.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts A10,456
• Starts AC888
• Ends R
• 5 letters starting A

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.