door
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, door sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3odor, rood
- One letter away
- 7boor, doer
What it means
- nouna swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle
- nounthe entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close
- nounanything providing a means of access (or escape)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as d ao1 r — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
101 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abhor
- adore
- ashore
- before
- boar
- bore
- carnivore
- chore
- commodore
- core
- corps
- deplore
- dinosaur
- drawer
- drugstore
- encore
- evermore
- explore
- eyesore
- floor
- folklore
- for
- fore
- four
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: odor, rood, ordo.
One letter away
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.