sober

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

3bores, robes

One letter away

4saber, sorer

• adjectivenot affected by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
• adjectivedignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises
• adjectivelacking brightness or color; dull

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s ow1 b er0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

3 other words use exactly these letters: bores, robes, brose.

The whole set on one page.

• saber
• sorer
• sower
• suber

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts S18,988
• Starts SO1,226
• Ends R
• 5 letters starting S

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.