polar
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, polar sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1parol
- One letter away
- 6molar, solar
What it means
- adjectivehaving a pair of equal and opposite charges
- adjectivecharacterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed
- adjectivelocated at or near or coming from the earth's poles
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p ow1 l er0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
10 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bowler
- controller
- roller
- solar
- steamroller
- stroller
- bipolar
- comptroller
- bolar
- toller
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: parol.
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.