hardy

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, hardy sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

1hydra

One letter away

7handy, harry

• adjectivehaving rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships
• adjectiveable to survive under unfavorable weather conditions
• adjectiveinvulnerable to fear or intimidation

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as hh aa1 r d iy0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

5 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• foolhardy
• tardy
• pardi
• pardy
• pardee

One other word use exactly these letters: hydra.

• handy
• harry
• tardy
• harpy
• lardy
• hards
• pardy

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts H6,303
• Starts HA1,538
• Ends Y
• 5 letters starting H

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.