bald
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, bald sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 11bale, balk
What it means
- adjectivewith no effort to conceal
- adjectivelacking hair on all or most of the scalp
- adjectivewithout the natural or usual covering
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b ao1 l d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
23 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- appalled
- balled
- bawled
- called
- crawled
- drawled
- enthralled
- hauled
- installed
- mauled
- mothballed
- overhauled
- recalled
- scald
- scrawled
- snowballed
- sprawled
- stalled
- walled
- piebald
- stonewalled
- uncalled
- auld
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.