laser
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, laser sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 7earls, reals
- One letter away
- 15baser, lager
What it means
- nounan acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation; an optical device that produces an intense monochromatic beam of coherent light
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l ey1 z er0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
13 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- blazer
- razor
- appraiser
- fundraiser
- grazer
- maser
- raiser
- stargazer
- trailblazer
- glazer
- lazar
- mazer
- raser
Its letters, rearranged
7 other words use exactly these letters: earls, reals, lares, rales, seral, arles, lears.
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.