amend
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, amend sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 4named, admen
- One letter away
- 3emend, amens
What it means
- verbmake amendments to
- verbto make better
- verbset straight or right
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ah0 m eh1 n d — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
54 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- append
- apprehend
- ascend
- attend
- befriend
- bend
- blend
- bookend
- boyfriend
- commend
- comprehend
- condescend
- contend
- defend
- depend
- descend
- distend
- dividend
- end
- expend
- extend
- fend
- friend
- girlfriend
Its letters, rearranged
4 other words use exactly these letters: named, admen, maned, menad.
One letter away
- emend
- amens
- ament
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 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.