hears
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, hears sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 4hares, share
- One letter away
- 21bears, dears
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and hears is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is hear — perceive (sound) via the auditory sense. 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 iy1 r z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
10 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
4 other words use exactly these letters: hares, share, shear, rheas.
One letter away
- bears
- dears
- fears
- gears
- heads
- heals
- heaps
- heard
- heart
- heats
- heirs
- nears
- pears
- rears
- sears
- tears
- wears
- years
- hoars
- haars
- lears
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.