racer
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, racer sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1carer
- One letter away
- 15raced, races
What it means
- nounsomeone who drives racing cars at high speeds
- nouna fast car that competes in races
- nounan animal that races
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r ey1 s er0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
9 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- baser
- eraser
- bracer
- chaser
- pacer
- spacer
- tracer
- facer
- lacer
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: carer.
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.