afar

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

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the second

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

3ajar, agar

• adverb(old-fashioned) at or from or to a great distance; far

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ah0 f aa1 r — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.

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

• ajar
• are
• bar
• bazaar
• bizarre
• boxcar
• car
• caviar
• char
• cigar
• crowbar
• czar
• far
• guitar
• jaguar
• jar
• mar
• par
• radar
• registrar
• repertoire
• reservoir
• scar
• seminar

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

• ajar
• agar
• alar

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

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts A10,456
• Starts AF231
• Ends R
• 4 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.