whir
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, whir sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- —not in the pronouncing dictionary
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 10whim, whip
What it means
- nounsound of something in rapid motion
- verbmake a soft swishing sound
How it sounds
Not one of the 50,962 words of ours that the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary covers, so this page prints no syllable count, no stress and no rhymes for it.
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
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.