fire
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, fire sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2rife, reif
- One letter away
- 19dire, fare
What it means
- nounthe event of something burning (often destructive)
- nounthe act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy
- nounthe process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as f ay1 er0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
61 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- acquire
- amplifier
- attire
- bonfire
- buyer
- choir
- conspire
- desire
- drier
- dryer
- entire
- flier
- friar
- gunfire
- higher
- hire
- identifier
- liar
- modifier
- pacifier
- prior
- pyre
- quagmire
- qualifier
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: rife, reif.
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.