laud
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, laud sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2dual, auld
- One letter away
- 9baud, laid
What it means
- verbpraise, glorify, or honor
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l ao1 d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
22 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abroad
- applaud
- awed
- baud
- broad
- clawed
- defraud
- flawed
- fraud
- gnawed
- jawed
- mod
- outlawed
- pawed
- sawed
- seesawed
- thawed
- bawd
- maraud
- maud
- whipsawed
- quod
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: dual, auld.
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.