bored
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, bored sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2robed, orbed
- One letter away
- 11bared, boded
What it means
- adjectivetired of the world
- adjectiveuninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence
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
- board
- cardboard
- chord
- clipboard
- concord
- cord
- dashboard
- deplored
- explored
- floored
- ford
- gored
- gourd
- harpsichord
- hoard
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: robed, orbed.
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.