aware
The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, aware sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 3awake, award
What it means
- adjective(sometimes followed by ‘of’) having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception
- adjectivebearing in mind; attentive to
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ah0 w eh1 r — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
113 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- affair
- air
- anywhere
- armchair
- bare
- bear
- beware
- blare
- care
- chair
- compare
- dare
- debonair
- declare
- despair
- disrepair
- elsewhere
- err
- everywhere
- fair
- fanfare
- fare
- firmware
- flair
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 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.