arid
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, arid sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1raid
- One letter away
- 7acid, amid
What it means
- adjectivelacking sufficient water or rainfall
- adjectivelacking vitality or spirit; lifeless
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ae1 r ah0 d — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: raid.
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.