wed
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, wed sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1dew
- One letter away
- 15bed, fed
What it means
- adjectivehaving been taken in marriage
- verbtake in marriage; married
- verbperform a marriage ceremony
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as w eh1 d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
96 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- aforesaid
- ahead
- bed
- bedspread
- behead
- bled
- blockhead
- bloodshed
- bobsled
- bread
- bred
- copperhead
- dead
- deathbed
- dread
- embed
- fed
- figurehead
- fled
- gingerbread
- head
- homestead
- hotbed
- inbred
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: dew.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 2% 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.