mend
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, mend 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
- 15bend, fend
What it means
- nounsewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment)
- nounthe act of putting something in working order again
- verbrestore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as m eh1 n d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
54 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- amend
- append
- apprehend
- ascend
- attend
- befriend
- bend
- blend
- bookend
- boyfriend
- commend
- comprehend
- condescend
- contend
- defend
- depend
- descend
- distend
- dividend
- end
- expend
- extend
- fend
- friend
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.