creed
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, creed sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2ceder, cered
- One letter away
- 10breed, creek
What it means
- nounany system of principles or beliefs
- nounthe written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k r 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
- cede
- centipede
- concede
- decreed
- deed
- disagreed
- exceed
- feed
- freed
- greed
- guaranteed
- heed
- impede
- indeed
- intercede
- keyed
- knead
- kneed
- misdeed
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: ceder, cered.
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.