bud
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, bud sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1dub
- One letter away
- 19bad, bed
What it means
- nouna partially opened flower
- nouna swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals
- verbdevelop buds
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b ah1 d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
13 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: dub.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 2% of the 972 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.