aide
The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, aide sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1idea
- One letter away
- 10aids, bide
What it means
- nounan officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer
- nounsomeone who acts as assistant
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ey1 d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
128 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- accolade
- afraid
- aid
- allayed
- arcade
- arrayed
- barricade
- bayed
- betrayed
- blade
- blockade
- braid
- bridesmaid
- brigade
- brocade
- buffeted
- cascade
- conveyed
- crocheted
- crusade
- decade
- decayed
- degrade
- delayed
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: idea.
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.