tear
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, tear sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2rate, tare
- One letter away
- 19bear, dear
What it means
- nouna drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands
- nounan opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
- nounan occasion for excessive eating or drinking
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t eh1 r — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
113 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- affair
- air
- anywhere
- armchair
- aware
- bare
- bear
- beware
- blare
- care
- chair
- compare
- dare
- debonair
- declare
- despair
- disrepair
- elsewhere
- err
- everywhere
- fair
- fanfare
- fare
- firmware
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: rate, tare.
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.