wad
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, wad sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1daw
- One letter away
- 25bad, cad
What it means
- nouna small mass of soft material
- noun(often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- nouna wad of something chewable as tobacco
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as w aa1 d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
30 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- cod
- facade
- god
- nod
- odd
- plod
- pod
- prod
- ramrod
- rod
- shod
- slipshod
- sod
- squad
- tightwad
- tripod
- trod
- arthropod
- cephalopod
- esplanade
- goldenrod
- quad
- roughshod
- scrod
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: daw.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 3% of the 972 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.