heads
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, heads sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 5shade, hades
- One letter away
- 12beads, heady
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and heads is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is head — the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains. 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 hh eh1 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.
- beds
- blockheads
- breads
- copperheads
- dreads
- feds
- foreheads
- homesteads
- hotbeds
- overheads
- redheads
- reds
- sheds
- shreds
- sleds
- spreads
- thoroughbreds
- threads
- treads
- warheads
- watersheds
- arrowheads
- beachheads
- bulkheads
Its letters, rearranged
5 other words use exactly these letters: shade, hades, ashed, sadhe, deash.
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.