wars
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, wars sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1raws
- One letter away
- 28bars, cars
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and wars is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is war — the waging of armed conflict against an enemy. 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 w ao1 r z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
45 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abhors
- adores
- bores
- carnivores
- chores
- cores
- deplores
- dinosaurs
- doors
- downpours
- drawers
- drugstores
- encores
- explores
- floors
- fours
- gores
- guarantors
- ignores
- implores
- indoors
- oars
- ores
- outdoors
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: raws.
One letter away
- bars
- cars
- ears
- jars
- mars
- oars
- pars
- tars
- wads
- wags
- ward
- warm
- warn
- warp
- wart
- wary
- ways
- gars
- lars
- ware
- wats
- vars
- waes
- wans
- waps
- waws
- wabs
- wark
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.