sands
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, sands 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
- 10bands, hands
What it means
- nounthe region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s ae1 n d z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
41 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bands
- brands
- commands
- demands
- expands
- glands
- grands
- hands
- hinterlands
- homelands
- lands
- misunderstands
- newsstands
- quicksands
- reprimands
- stands
- strands
- understands
- withstands
- woodlands
- armbands
- badlands
- farmhands
- farmlands
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.