blood
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, blood sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 5blond, bloom
What it means
- nounthe fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets
- nountemperament or disposition
- nouna dissolute man in fashionable society
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b l ah1 d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
13 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
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.