sore
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, sore sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 4ores, roes
- One letter away
- 25bore, core
What it means
- adjectivehurting
- adjectivecausing misery or pain or distress
- adjectiveroused to anger
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s ao1 r — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
101 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abhor
- adore
- ashore
- before
- boar
- bore
- carnivore
- chore
- commodore
- core
- corps
- deplore
- dinosaur
- door
- drawer
- drugstore
- encore
- evermore
- explore
- eyesore
- floor
- folklore
- for
- fore
Its letters, rearranged
4 other words use exactly these letters: ores, roes, rose, eros.
One letter away
- bore
- core
- fore
- gore
- lore
- more
- pore
- sire
- sole
- some
- sort
- sure
- tore
- wore
- sere
- yore
- dore
- kore
- soke
- sone
- sora
- sorb
- sord
- sori
- sorn
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.