ahead
The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, ahead sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 1aahed
- One letter away
- 0none in this dictionary
What it means
- adjectivehaving the leading position or higher score in a contest
- adverbat or in the front
- adverbtoward the future; forward in time
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ah0 hh eh1 d — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
96 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- aforesaid
- bed
- bedspread
- behead
- bled
- blockhead
- bloodshed
- bobsled
- bread
- bred
- copperhead
- dead
- deathbed
- dread
- embed
- fed
- figurehead
- fled
- gingerbread
- head
- homestead
- hotbed
- inbred
- infrared
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: aahed.
One letter away
No word in this dictionary differs from it by exactly one letter.
Same length, one position changed.
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.