third

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, third 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

1thirl

• adjectivecoming next after the second and just before the fourth in position
• nounone of three equal parts of a divisible whole
• nounthe fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the third of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as th er1 d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

54 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• absurd
• bird
• bluebird
• blurred
• chauffeured
• concurred
• conferred
• crossword
• curd
• deferred
• deterred
• foreword
• heard
• herd
• hummingbird
• incurred
• inferred
• interred
• keyword
• mockingbird
• occurred
• overheard
• password
• preferred

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.

• thirl

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts T8,747
• Starts TH1,174
• Ends D
• 5 letters starting T

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.