scald
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, scald sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1clads
- One letter away
- 6scale, scalp
What it means
- nouna burn cause by hot liquid or steam
- nounthe act of burning with steam or hot water
- verbsubject to harsh criticism
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s k ao1 l d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
23 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- appalled
- bald
- balled
- bawled
- called
- crawled
- drawled
- enthralled
- hauled
- installed
- mauled
- mothballed
- overhauled
- recalled
- scrawled
- snowballed
- sprawled
- stalled
- walled
- piebald
- stonewalled
- uncalled
- auld
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: clads.
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.