broad
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, broad sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2board, dobra
- One letter away
- 2bread, brood
What it means
- adjectivehaving great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other
- adjectivebroad in scope or content
- adjectivenot detailed or specific
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b r ao1 d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
22 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abroad
- applaud
- awed
- baud
- clawed
- defraud
- flawed
- fraud
- gnawed
- jawed
- laud
- mod
- outlawed
- pawed
- sawed
- seesawed
- thawed
- bawd
- maraud
- maud
- whipsawed
- quod
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: board, 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.