rapid

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, rapid sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

2padri, pardi

One letter away

5rabid, raped

• adjectivedone or occurring in a brief period of time
• adjectivecharacterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed
• nouna part of a river where the current is very fast

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r ae1 p ah0 d — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

2 other words use exactly these letters: padri, pardi.

• rabid
• raped
• vapid
• ranid
• sapid

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts R10,159
• Starts RA1,254
• Ends D
• 5 letters starting R

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.