otter
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, otter sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3torte, rotte
- One letter away
- 7other, outer
What it means
- nounthe fur of an otter
- nounfreshwater carnivorous mammal having webbed and clawed feet and dark brown fur
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as aa1 t 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.
- blotter
- hotter
- plotter
- potter
- squatter
- totter
- cotter
- groundwater
- imprimatur
- mater
- meltwater
- rotter
- saltwater
- seawater
- spotter
- trotter
- dotter
- yachter
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: torte, rotte, toter.
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.