lead
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, lead sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3deal, dale
- One letter away
- 16bead, dead
What it means
- nounan advantage held by a competitor in a race
- nounevidence pointing to a possible solution
- nouna position of being the initiator of something and an example that others will follow (especially in the phrase ‘take the lead’)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l eh1 d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
96 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- aforesaid
- ahead
- bed
- bedspread
- behead
- bled
- blockhead
- bloodshed
- bobsled
- bread
- bred
- copperhead
- dead
- deathbed
- dread
- embed
- fed
- figurehead
- fled
- gingerbread
- head
- homestead
- hotbed
- inbred
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: deal, dale, lade.
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.