clear
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, clear sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2carle, lacer
- One letter away
- 3clean, cleat
What it means
- adjectivereadily apparent to the mind
- adjectivefree from confusion or doubt
- adjectiveaffording free passage or view
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k l ih1 r — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
91 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- adhere
- appear
- atmosphere
- auctioneer
- austere
- beer
- career
- cashier
- cavalier
- chandelier
- cheer
- commandeer
- dear
- deer
- disappear
- emir
- engineer
- fear
- financier
- frontier
- gear
- hemisphere
- insincere
- interfere
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: carle, lacer.
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.