elude
The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, elude sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 4exude, elide
What it means
- verbescape, either physically or mentally
- verbbe incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
- verbavoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ih0 l uw1 d — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
93 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- accrued
- allude
- altitude
- amplitude
- aptitude
- attitude
- barbecued
- blued
- booed
- brewed
- brood
- canoed
- chewed
- clued
- conclude
- construed
- cooed
- crude
- cued
- debuted
- delude
- dude
- ensued
- exclude
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- exude
- elide
- etude
- elute
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.