herds
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, herds sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2shred, sherd
- One letter away
- 11heads, heeds
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and herds is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is herd — a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans. 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 er1 d z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
18 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
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- keywords
- passwords
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- watchwords
- words
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Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: shred, sherd.
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.