ire
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, ire sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1rei
- One letter away
- 5are, ice
What it means
- nouna strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance
- nounbelligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ay1 r — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
25 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- admire
- aspire
- backfire
- dire
- expire
- haywire
- inquire
- inspire
- lyre
- mire
- perspire
- retire
- shire
- spire
- squire
- afire
- brushfire
- esquire
- foxfire
- hellfire
- quire
- reacquire
- rehire
- skier
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: rei.
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.