hares
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, hares sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 4hears, share
- One letter away
- 29bares, cares
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and hares is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is hare — swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs; young born furred and with open eyes. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as hh eh1 r z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
58 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- affairs
- airs
- armchairs
- bares
- bears
- blares
- cares
- chairs
- compares
- dares
- declares
- despairs
- downstairs
- errs
- fairs
- fares
- flares
- glares
- hairs
- heirs
- impairs
- mares
- millionaires
- nightmares
Its letters, rearranged
4 other words use exactly these letters: hears, share, shear, rheas.
One letter away
- bares
- cares
- dares
- fares
- hales
- hared
- harem
- harks
- harms
- harps
- harts
- hates
- haves
- hazes
- hires
- mares
- pares
- rares
- hades
- hakes
- tares
- wares
- hajes
- hames
- hards
- harls
- heres
- lares
- nares
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.