greed
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, greed sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1edger
- One letter away
- 11breed, creed
What it means
- nounexcessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves
- nounreprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as g r iy1 d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
72 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- accede
- agreed
- bead
- bleed
- breed
- cede
- centipede
- concede
- creed
- decreed
- deed
- disagreed
- exceed
- feed
- freed
- guaranteed
- heed
- impede
- indeed
- intercede
- keyed
- knead
- kneed
- misdeed
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: edger.
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.