piers
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, piers sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 7pries, spire
- One letter away
- 6peers, tiers
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and piers is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is pier — a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p ih1 r z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
56 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- adheres
- appears
- arrears
- auctioneers
- beers
- careers
- cashiers
- cavaliers
- cheers
- clears
- disappears
- ears
- engineers
- fears
- financiers
- frontiers
- gears
- interferes
- mountaineers
- nears
- peers
- perseveres
- pioneers
- premieres
Its letters, rearranged
7 other words use exactly these letters: pries, spire, peris, speir, spier, prise, ripes.
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.