cede

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, cede sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

7code, cade

• verbgive over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
• verbrelinquish possession or control over

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s 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
• bleed
• breed
• centipede
• concede
• creed
• decreed
• deed
• disagreed
• exceed
• feed
• freed
• greed
• guaranteed
• heed
• impede
• indeed
• intercede
• keyed
• knead
• kneed
• misdeed

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.

• code
• cade
• cedi
• cepe
• cere
• cete
• rede

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts C16,229
• Starts CE573
• Ends E
• 4 letters starting C

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.