lever
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, lever sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2revel, elver
- One letter away
- 10fever, leper
What it means
- nouna rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum
- nouna simple machine that gives a mechanical advantage when given a fulcrum
- nouna flat metal tumbler in a lever lock
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l eh1 v er0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
18 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- clever
- endeavor
- ever
- forever
- however
- never
- sever
- whatever
- whatsoever
- whenever
- wherever
- whichever
- whoever
- whomever
- whomsoever
- whosoever
- haver
- endeavour
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: revel, elver.
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.