sand
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, sand sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1ands
- One letter away
- 12band, hand
What it means
- nouna loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral
- nounfortitude and determination
- verbrub with sandpaper
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s ae1 n d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
89 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ampersand
- backhand
- band
- bandstand
- banned
- beforehand
- bland
- brand
- canned
- command
- contraband
- demand
- disband
- expand
- fanned
- farmland
- fatherland
- firsthand
- freehand
- gland
- grand
- grandstand
- hand
- hinterland
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: ands.
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.