weld
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, weld sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1lewd
- One letter away
- 11held, weed
What it means
- nounEuropean mignonette cultivated as a source of yellow dye; naturalized in North America
- nouna metal joint formed by softening with heat and fusing or hammering together
- verbjoin together by heating
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as w eh1 l d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
29 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- beheld
- compelled
- dispelled
- excelled
- expelled
- felled
- held
- impelled
- jelled
- misspelled
- paralleled
- propelled
- quelled
- rebelled
- repelled
- shelled
- smelled
- spelled
- swelled
- unparalleled
- upheld
- withheld
- yelled
- celled
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: lewd.
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.