bears
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, bears sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 5bares, baser
- One letter away
- 21beads, beaks
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and bears is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is bear — massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b eh1 r z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
58 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- affairs
- airs
- armchairs
- bares
- blares
- cares
- chairs
- compares
- dares
- declares
- despairs
- downstairs
- errs
- fairs
- fares
- flares
- glares
- hairs
- hares
- heirs
- impairs
- mares
- millionaires
- nightmares
Its letters, rearranged
5 other words use exactly these letters: bares, baser, saber, braes, sabre.
One letter away
- beads
- beaks
- beams
- beans
- beard
- beats
- beers
- boars
- dears
- fears
- gears
- hears
- nears
- pears
- rears
- sears
- tears
- wears
- years
- beaus
- lears
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.