beard
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, beard sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 5bared, bread
- One letter away
- 3bears, board
What it means
- nounthe hair growing on the lower part of a man's face
- nouna tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses
- nouna person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b ih1 r d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
30 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- adhered
- appeared
- cashiered
- cheered
- cleared
- commandeered
- disappeared
- feared
- geared
- interfered
- jeered
- neared
- peered
- persevered
- pioneered
- premiered
- reappeared
- reared
- revered
- seared
- sheared
- smeared
- sneered
- steered
Its letters, rearranged
5 other words use exactly these letters: bared, bread, debar, ardeb, barde.
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.