fold
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, fold sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 12bold, cold
What it means
- nounan angular or rounded shape made by folding
- nouna group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
- nouna geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as f ow1 l d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
70 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- behold
- billfold
- blindfold
- bold
- bowled
- buttonholed
- cajoled
- cold
- consoled
- controlled
- doled
- enrolled
- extolled
- foothold
- foretold
- gold
- hold
- holed
- household
- manifold
- marigold
- mold
- old
- paroled
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.