bad
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, bad sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1dab
- One letter away
- 27bag, ban
What it means
- adjectivehaving undesirable or negative qualities
- adjectiveserious or severe
- adjectivefeeling physical discomfort or pain (‘tough’ is occasionally used colloquially for ‘bad’)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b ae1 d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
35 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ad
- add
- cad
- clad
- comrade
- dad
- fad
- glad
- had
- lad
- mad
- nomad
- pad
- plaid
- sad
- brad
- chad
- doodad
- dyad
- gad
- grad
- granddad
- ironclad
- keypad
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: dab.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 3% of the 972 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.