acrid
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, acrid sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2caird, daric
- One letter away
- 1acred
What it means
- adjectivestrong and sharp
- adjectiveharsh or corrosive in tone
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ae1 k r ih0 d — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: caird, daric.
One letter away
- acred
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.