bleed
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, bleed sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1bedel
- One letter away
- 5blend, blued
What it means
- verblose blood from one's body
- verbdraw blood
- verbget or extort (money or other possessions) from someone
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b l 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
- bead
- breed
- cede
- centipede
- concede
- creed
- decreed
- deed
- disagreed
- exceed
- feed
- freed
- greed
- guaranteed
- heed
- impede
- indeed
- intercede
- keyed
- knead
- kneed
- misdeed
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: bedel.
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.