humor

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, humor sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

1mohur

One letter away

2rumor, tumor

• nouna message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
• nounthe trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous
• nouna characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as hh y uw1 m er0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

8 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• consumer
• rumor
• tumor
• bloomer
• boomer
• groomer
• humour
• rumour

One other word use exactly these letters: mohur.

• rumor
• tumor

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts H6,303
• Starts HU434
• Ends R
• 5 letters starting H

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.