curse
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, curse sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 4cures, cruse
- One letter away
- 8curve, nurse
What it means
- nounprofane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger
- nounan appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group
- nounan evil spell
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k er1 s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
25 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- adverse
- averse
- coerce
- disburse
- disperse
- diverse
- hearse
- immerse
- intersperse
- inverse
- nurse
- perverse
- purse
- rehearse
- reimburse
- reverse
- terse
- transverse
- universe
- verse
- worse
- obverse
- submerse
- burse
Its letters, rearranged
4 other words use exactly these letters: cures, cruse, sucre, ecrus.
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.