field
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, field sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3filed, flied
- One letter away
- 5fiend, wield
What it means
- nouna piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
- nouna region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
- nounsomewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as f iy1 l d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
31 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- afield
- airfield
- appealed
- battlefield
- concealed
- congealed
- healed
- heeled
- infield
- minefield
- outfield
- peeled
- reeled
- repealed
- revealed
- sealed
- shield
- steeled
- wheeled
- wield
- windshield
- yield
- backfield
- chesterfield
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: filed, flied, felid.
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.