pore
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, pore sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2rope, repo
- One letter away
- 24bore, core
What it means
- nounany tiny hole admitting passage of a liquid (fluid or gas)
- nounany small opening in the skin or outer surface of an animal
- nouna minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor can pass
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p ao1 r — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
101 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abhor
- adore
- ashore
- before
- boar
- bore
- carnivore
- chore
- commodore
- core
- corps
- deplore
- dinosaur
- door
- drawer
- drugstore
- encore
- evermore
- explore
- eyesore
- floor
- folklore
- for
- fore
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: rope, repo.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.