ulcer

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, ulcer sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

2cruel, lucre

One letter away

0none in this dictionary

• nouna circumscribed inflammatory and often suppurating lesion on the skin or an internal mucous surface resulting in necrosis of tissue

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ah1 l s er0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

2 other words use exactly these letters: cruel, lucre.

The whole set on one page.

No word in this dictionary differs from it by exactly one letter.

Same length, one position changed.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts U5,070
• Starts UL258
• Ends R
• 5 letters starting U

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.