hired
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, hired sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1hider
- One letter away
- 12aired, fired
What it means
- adjectivehaving services engaged for a fee
- adjectivehired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as hh ay1 er0 d — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
17 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- acquired
- admired
- backfired
- conspired
- desired
- fired
- inquired
- inspired
- required
- tired
- transpired
- uninspired
- wired
- rehired
- rewired
- unexpired
- hardwired
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: hider.
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.