herd
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, herd 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
- 12hard, head
What it means
- nouna group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans
- nouna group of wild mammals of one species that remain together: antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra
- nouna crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as hh er1 d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
54 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- absurd
- bird
- bluebird
- blurred
- chauffeured
- concurred
- conferred
- crossword
- curd
- deferred
- deterred
- foreword
- heard
- hummingbird
- incurred
- inferred
- interred
- keyword
- mockingbird
- occurred
- overheard
- password
- preferred
- recurred
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.