fad
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, fad sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 22bad, cad
What it means
- nounan interest followed with exaggerated zeal
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as f ae1 d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
35 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ad
- add
- bad
- cad
- clad
- comrade
- dad
- glad
- had
- lad
- mad
- nomad
- pad
- plaid
- sad
- brad
- chad
- doodad
- dyad
- gad
- grad
- granddad
- ironclad
- keypad
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 3 letters.
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.