queer
The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, queer sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 1queen
What it means
- adjectivebeyond or deviating from the usual or expected
- adjectivehomosexual or arousing homosexual desires
- nounoffensive term for a homosexual man
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k w ih1 r — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
91 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- adhere
- appear
- atmosphere
- auctioneer
- austere
- beer
- career
- cashier
- cavalier
- chandelier
- cheer
- clear
- commandeer
- dear
- deer
- disappear
- emir
- engineer
- fear
- financier
- frontier
- gear
- hemisphere
- insincere
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
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.