era

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, era sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

3972 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

2are, ear

One letter away

8bra, err

• nouna period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
• nouna major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as eh1 r ah0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

9 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• mascara
• sierra
• caldera
• chimera
• para
• riviera
• vera
• guayabera
• naira

2 other words use exactly these letters: are, ear.

The whole set on one page.

• bra
• err
• ere
• erg
• ers
• eta
• ora
• ern

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 972 words this long are a neighbour.

• 3 letter words972
• Starts E7,067
• Starts ER281
• Ends A
• 3 letters starting E

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.