skid
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, skid sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2disk, kids
- One letter away
- 7said, skim
What it means
- nounone of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects
- nouna restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation
- nounan unexpected slide
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s k ih1 d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
26 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- amid
- bid
- debited
- did
- eyelid
- forbid
- grid
- hid
- id
- kid
- lid
- outdid
- overdid
- redid
- rid
- slid
- squid
- undid
- grandkid
- katydid
- mid
- outbid
- quid
- rebid
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: disk, kids.
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.