sours
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, sours sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1sorus
- One letter away
- 12fours, hours
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and sours is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is sour — smelling of fermentation or staleness. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s aw1 er0 z — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
16 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- devours
- empowers
- flours
- flowers
- hours
- ours
- overpowers
- powers
- scours
- showers
- sunflowers
- towers
- bowers
- cornflowers
- superpowers
- bellflowers
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: sorus.
One letter away
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.