held
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, held 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
- 13head, heed
What it means
- adjectiveoccupied or in the control of; often used in combination
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as hh eh1 l d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
29 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- beheld
- compelled
- dispelled
- excelled
- expelled
- felled
- impelled
- jelled
- misspelled
- paralleled
- propelled
- quelled
- rebelled
- repelled
- shelled
- smelled
- spelled
- swelled
- unparalleled
- upheld
- weld
- withheld
- yelled
- celled
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.