river
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, river sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 20diver, fiver
What it means
- nouna large natural stream of water (larger than a creek)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r ih1 v 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.
- deliver
- liver
- quiver
- shiver
- sliver
- caregiver
- downriver
- giver
- upriver
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- diver
- fiver
- liver
- rider
- rifer
- riper
- riser
- rivet
- giver
- raver
- ricer
- rived
- riven
- rives
- rover
- jiver
- rimer
- aiver
- siver
- wiver
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.