refer

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, refer sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the second

Anagrams

2freer, frere

One letter away

4defer, rifer

• verbmake reference to
• verbbe relevant to
• verbthink of, regard, or classify under a subsuming principle or with a general group or in relation to another

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r ah0 f er1 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.

57 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• amateur
• ampere
• blur
• burr
• chauffeur
• cleverer
• concur
• confer
• connoisseur
• cur
• defer
• descriptor
• deter
• fir
• fur
• her
• incur
• infer
• inter
• liqueur
• occur
• per
• prefer
• purr

2 other words use exactly these letters: freer, frere.

The whole set on one page.

• defer
• rifer
• refed
• refel

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts R10,159
• Starts RE6,681
• Ends R
• 5 letters starting R

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.