star
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, star sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 4arts, rats
- One letter away
- 10scar, sear
What it means
- adjectiveindicating the most important performer or role
- noun(astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior
- nounsomeone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s t aa1 r — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
65 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- afar
- ajar
- are
- bar
- bazaar
- bizarre
- boxcar
- car
- caviar
- char
- cigar
- crowbar
- czar
- far
- guitar
- jaguar
- jar
- mar
- par
- radar
- registrar
- repertoire
- reservoir
- scar
Its letters, rearranged
4 other words use exactly these letters: arts, rats, tars, tsar.
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.