force
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, force sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 4farce, forge
What it means
- nouna powerful effect or influence
- noun(physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity
- nounphysical energy or intensity
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as f ao1 r s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
22 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- coarse
- concourse
- course
- divorce
- endorse
- enforce
- hoarse
- horse
- intercourse
- reinforce
- remorse
- source
- workforce
- clotheshorse
- morse
- perforce
- racehorse
- workhorse
- bourse
- corse
- counterforce
- midcourse
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.