air
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, air sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1ria
- One letter away
- 10aid, ail
What it means
- nouna mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of
- nounthe region above the ground
- nouna distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as eh1 r — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
113 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- affair
- anywhere
- armchair
- aware
- bare
- bear
- beware
- blare
- care
- chair
- compare
- dare
- debonair
- declare
- despair
- disrepair
- elsewhere
- err
- everywhere
- fair
- fanfare
- fare
- firmware
- flair
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: ria.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 1% of the 972 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.