bayed
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, bayed sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1beady
- One letter away
- 13baked, baled
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and bayed is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is bay — (used of animals especially a horse) of a moderate reddish-brown color. 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 b ey1 d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
128 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- accolade
- afraid
- aid
- aide
- allayed
- arcade
- arrayed
- barricade
- betrayed
- blade
- blockade
- braid
- bridesmaid
- brigade
- brocade
- buffeted
- cascade
- conveyed
- crocheted
- crusade
- decade
- decayed
- degrade
- delayed
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: beady.
One letter away
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.