brood
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, brood 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
- 5blood, broad
What it means
- nounthe young of an animal cared for at one time
- verbthink moodily or anxiously about something
- verbhang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b r uw1 d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
93 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- accrued
- allude
- altitude
- amplitude
- aptitude
- attitude
- barbecued
- blued
- booed
- brewed
- canoed
- chewed
- clued
- conclude
- construed
- cooed
- crude
- cued
- debuted
- delude
- dude
- elude
- ensued
- exclude
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.