ford
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, ford sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 14cord, fold
What it means
- nouna shallow area in a stream that can be forded
- nounthe act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car or on a horse
- verbcross a river where it's shallow
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as f ao1 r d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
95 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abhorred
- aboard
- aboveboard
- accord
- adored
- afford
- award
- billboard
- blackboard
- board
- bored
- cardboard
- chord
- clipboard
- concord
- cord
- dashboard
- deplored
- explored
- floored
- gored
- gourd
- harpsichord
- hoard
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
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.