layer
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, layer sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3early, relay
- One letter away
- 14gayer, lager
What it means
- nounsingle thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
- nouna relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another
- nounan abstract place usually conceived as having depth
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l ey1 er0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
27 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bricklayer
- gayer
- grayer
- mayor
- player
- purveyor
- surveyor
- taxpayer
- assayer
- ballplayer
- conveyor
- doomsayer
- multiplayer
- naysayer
- payer
- ratepayer
- slayer
- soothsayer
- sprayer
- stayer
- brayer
- hayer
- multilayer
- preyer
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: early, relay, leary.
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.