care
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, care sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2acre, race
- One letter away
- 33bare, cafe
What it means
- nounthe work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something
- nounjudiciousness in avoiding harm or danger
- nounan anxious feeling
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k 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
- air
- anywhere
- armchair
- aware
- bare
- bear
- beware
- blare
- chair
- compare
- dare
- debonair
- declare
- despair
- disrepair
- elsewhere
- err
- everywhere
- fair
- fanfare
- fare
- firmware
- flair
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: acre, race.
One letter away
- bare
- cafe
- cage
- cake
- came
- cane
- cape
- card
- carp
- cars
- cart
- case
- cave
- core
- cure
- dare
- fare
- hare
- mare
- pare
- rare
- carl
- carr
- tare
- ware
- cade
- carb
- cark
- cate
- cere
- cire
- yare
- carn
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.