diver
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, diver sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2drive, rived
- One letter away
- 15diner, direr
What it means
- nounsomeone who works underwater
- nounsomeone who dives (into water)
- nounlarge somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the Northern Hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as d ay1 v er0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
8 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- driver
- screwdriver
- survivor
- cabdriver
- skiver
- shriver
- stiver
- siver
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: drive, rived.
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.