bead
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, bead sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2abed, bade
- One letter away
- 13beak, beam
What it means
- nouna small ball with a hole through the middle
- nouna shape that is spherical and small
- nouna beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b iy1 d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
72 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- accede
- agreed
- bleed
- breed
- cede
- centipede
- concede
- creed
- decreed
- deed
- disagreed
- exceed
- feed
- freed
- greed
- guaranteed
- heed
- impede
- indeed
- intercede
- keyed
- knead
- kneed
- misdeed
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: abed, bade.
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.