scold
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, scold sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2clods, colds
- One letter away
- 2scald, acold
What it means
- nounsomeone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault
- verbcensure severely or angrily
- verbshow one's unhappiness or critical attitude
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s k ow1 l d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
70 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- behold
- billfold
- blindfold
- bold
- bowled
- buttonholed
- cajoled
- cold
- consoled
- controlled
- doled
- enrolled
- extolled
- fold
- foothold
- foretold
- gold
- hold
- holed
- household
- manifold
- marigold
- mold
- old
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: clods, colds.
One letter away
- scald
- acold
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.