needs
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, needs sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2dense, denes
- One letter away
- 11deeds, feeds
What it means
- adverbin such a manner as could not be otherwise
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as n iy1 d z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
31 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- accedes
- beads
- bleeds
- breeds
- cedes
- concedes
- creeds
- deeds
- exceeds
- feeds
- heeds
- impedes
- leads
- misdeeds
- misleads
- pleads
- precedes
- proceeds
- reads
- recedes
- reeds
- seaweeds
- seeds
- speeds
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: dense, denes.
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.