lurid

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, lurid sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

3lucid, lured

• adjectivehorrible in fierceness or savagery
• adjectiveglaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism
• adjectiveshining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l uh1 r ah0 d — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.

• lucid
• lured
• murid

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts L5,055
• Starts LU456
• Ends D
• 5 letters starting L

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.