bars
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, bars sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2bras, arbs
- One letter away
- 29bags, bans
What it means
- noungymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden rods supported on uprights
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b aa1 r z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
33 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ares
- bazaars
- boxcars
- cars
- cigars
- czars
- guitars
- handlebars
- jaguars
- jars
- mars
- pars
- radars
- registrars
- reservoirs
- scars
- seminars
- stars
- superstars
- avatars
- barres
- gars
- hectares
- lars
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: bras, arbs.
One letter away
- bags
- bans
- barb
- bard
- bare
- bark
- barn
- bass
- bats
- bays
- cars
- ears
- jars
- mars
- oars
- pars
- tars
- wars
- baas
- baps
- barf
- burs
- gars
- lars
- bads
- bals
- bams
- barm
- vars
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.