board
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, board sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2broad, dobra
- One letter away
- 4beard, boars
What it means
- nouna committee having supervisory powers
- nouna stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of sizes and used for many purposes
- nouna flat piece of material designed for a special purpose
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b ao1 r d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
95 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abhorred
- aboard
- aboveboard
- accord
- adored
- afford
- award
- billboard
- blackboard
- bored
- cardboard
- chord
- clipboard
- concord
- cord
- dashboard
- deplored
- explored
- floored
- ford
- gored
- gourd
- harpsichord
- hoard
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: broad, dobra.
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.