yards
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, yards sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1drays
- One letter away
- 12bards, cards
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and yards is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is yard — a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as y aa1 r d z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
25 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bodyguards
- boulevards
- cards
- courtyards
- discards
- disregards
- graveyards
- guards
- lifeguards
- postcards
- regards
- retards
- safeguards
- stockyards
- backyards
- blowhards
- flashcards
- junkyards
- lumberyards
- scorecards
- shards
- shipyards
- diehards
- hards
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: drays.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 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.