guard
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, guard 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
- 1guars
What it means
- nouna person who keeps watch over something or someone
- nounthe person who lines up between the center and the tackles on the offensive line of a football team on the line of scrimmage
- nouna device designed to prevent injury or accidents
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as g aa1 r d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
50 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bard
- barnyard
- barred
- bodyguard
- bombard
- boulevard
- card
- charred
- courtyard
- discard
- disregard
- graveyard
- hard
- jarred
- lard
- leotard
- lifeguard
- marred
- postcard
- regard
- retard
- safeguard
- scarred
- sparred
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- guars
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.