fends
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, fends 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
- 15bends, feeds
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and fends is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is fend — try to manage without help. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as f eh1 n d z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
37 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- amends
- ascends
- attends
- befriends
- bends
- blends
- bookends
- boyfriends
- commends
- comprehends
- contends
- defends
- depends
- descends
- dividends
- ends
- extends
- friends
- girlfriends
- godsends
- intends
- lends
- offends
- portends
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.