cured
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, cured sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1crude
- One letter away
- 10cared, cored
What it means
- adjectivefreed from illness or injury
- adjective(used of rubber) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity)
- adjective(used of concrete or mortar) kept moist to assist the hardening
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k y uh1 r d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
18 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- allured
- assured
- contoured
- endured
- ensured
- insured
- lured
- matured
- moored
- obscured
- procured
- reassured
- secured
- toured
- inured
- uninsured
- unsecured
- reinsured
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: crude.
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.