emir
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, emir sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 2mire, rime
- One letter away
- 3emit, emic
What it means
- nounan independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ih0 m ih1 r — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
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
- clear
- commandeer
- dear
- deer
- disappear
- engineer
- fear
- financier
- frontier
- gear
- hemisphere
- insincere
- interfere
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: mire, rime.
One letter away
- emit
- emic
- amir
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.