avoid

The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, avoid sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the second

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

2ovoid, aroid

• verbstay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something
• verbprevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off
• verbrefrain from doing something

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ah0 v oy1 d — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.

34 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• android
• annoyed
• asteroid
• destroyed
• devoid
• employed
• enjoyed
• paranoid
• toyed
• unemployed
• void
• adenoid
• alkaloid
• amyloid
• celluloid
• deployed
• factoid
• hemorrhoid
• humanoid
• lymphoid
• mongoloid
• overjoyed
• ovoid
• redeployed

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.

• ovoid
• aroid

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts A10,456
• Starts AV187
• Ends D
• 5 letters starting A

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.