later
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, later sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 5alert, alter
- One letter away
- 23cater, eater
What it means
- adjectivecoming at a subsequent time or stage
- adjectiveat or toward an end or late period or stage of development
- adverbhappening at a time subsequent to a reference time
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l ey1 t er0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
115 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- accelerator
- administrator
- agitator
- alligator
- alternator
- amphitheater
- applicator
- arbitrator
- aviator
- calculator
- carburetor
- cater
- collaborator
- commentator
- communicator
- coordinator
- crater
- creator
- curator
- decorator
- demonstrator
- denominator
- detonator
- dictator
Its letters, rearranged
5 other words use exactly these letters: alert, alter, artel, ratel, taler.
One letter away
- cater
- eater
- lager
- lamer
- laser
- latex
- laxer
- layer
- liter
- water
- dater
- hater
- mater
- rater
- tater
- lacer
- lader
- laker
- lated
- laten
- laver
- oater
- pater
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.