fur
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, fur sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 12cur, far
What it means
- nounthe dressed hairy coat of a mammal
- noundense coat of fine silky hairs on mammals (e.g., cat or seal or weasel)
- nouna garment made of animal pelts or synthetic fur
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as f er1 — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
57 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- amateur
- ampere
- blur
- burr
- chauffeur
- cleverer
- concur
- confer
- connoisseur
- cur
- defer
- descriptor
- deter
- fir
- her
- incur
- infer
- inter
- liqueur
- occur
- per
- prefer
- purr
- recur
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 3 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 1% of the 972 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.