gland
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, gland 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
- 5bland, grand
What it means
- nounany of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as g l ae1 n d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
89 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ampersand
- backhand
- band
- bandstand
- banned
- beforehand
- bland
- brand
- canned
- command
- contraband
- demand
- disband
- expand
- fanned
- farmland
- fatherland
- firsthand
- freehand
- grand
- grandstand
- hand
- hinterland
- homeland
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.