hood
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, hood 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
- 12food, good
What it means
- nounan aggressive and violent young criminal
- nouna protective covering that is part of a plant
- noun(slang) a neighborhood or community
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as hh uh1 d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
56 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- adulthood
- boyhood
- brotherhood
- childhood
- cottonwood
- could
- dogwood
- driftwood
- falsehood
- fatherhood
- firewood
- girlhood
- good
- hardwood
- knighthood
- likelihood
- livelihood
- manhood
- misunderstood
- motherhood
- neighborhood
- parenthood
- plywood
- should
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.