round
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, round sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 7bound, found
What it means
- adjectivehaving the shape or form of a circle
- adjective(of sounds) full and rich
- adjective(mathematics) expressed to the nearest integer, ten, hundred, or thousand
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r aw1 n 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.
- abound
- aground
- around
- astound
- background
- bound
- browned
- confound
- crowned
- downed
- drowned
- expound
- foreground
- found
- frowned
- greyhound
- ground
- hound
- impound
- mound
- outbound
- playground
- pound
- profound
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 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.