fever
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, fever sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 6fewer, fiver
What it means
- nouna rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection
- nouna state of nervous excitement
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as f iy1 v er0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
13 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- beaver
- believer
- cleaver
- receiver
- retriever
- weaver
- achiever
- griever
- leaver
- nonbeliever
- reliever
- underachiever
- reaver
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
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.