heed
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, heed 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
- 19deed, feed
What it means
- nounpaying particular notice (as to children or helpless people)
- verbpay close attention to; give heed to
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as hh 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
- greed
- guaranteed
- impede
- indeed
- intercede
- keyed
- knead
- kneed
- misdeed
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.