sour
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, sour sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1ours
- One letter away
- 14dour, four
What it means
- adjectivesmelling of fermentation or staleness
- adjectivehaving a sharp biting taste
- adjectiveone of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s aw1 er0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
31 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- cauliflower
- cower
- devour
- dour
- empower
- flour
- flower
- glower
- horsepower
- hour
- manpower
- our
- overpower
- power
- scour
- shower
- sunflower
- tower
- willpower
- bower
- brainpower
- coneflower
- cornflower
- firepower
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: ours.
One letter away
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.