code
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, code sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2coed, deco
- One letter away
- 17bode, cede
What it means
- nouna set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones)
- nouna coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy
- noun(computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k ow1 d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
73 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abode
- bestowed
- bode
- borrowed
- corrode
- crowed
- decode
- elbowed
- encode
- episode
- erode
- explode
- flowed
- glowed
- goad
- load
- microcode
- mode
- mowed
- node
- ode
- overflowed
- overload
- overrode
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: coed, deco.
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.