heeds
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, heeds 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
- 10deeds, feeds
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and heeds is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is heed — paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people). 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 iy1 d z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
31 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- accedes
- beads
- bleeds
- breeds
- cedes
- concedes
- creeds
- deeds
- exceeds
- feeds
- impedes
- leads
- misdeeds
- misleads
- needs
- pleads
- precedes
- proceeds
- reads
- recedes
- reeds
- seaweeds
- seeds
- speeds
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.