old
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, old sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1dol
- One letter away
- 4odd, ole
What it means
- adjective(used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age
- adjectiveof long duration; not new
- adjective(used for emphasis) very familiar
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ow1 l d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
70 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- behold
- billfold
- blindfold
- bold
- bowled
- buttonholed
- cajoled
- cold
- consoled
- controlled
- doled
- enrolled
- extolled
- fold
- foothold
- foretold
- gold
- hold
- holed
- household
- manifold
- marigold
- mold
- paroled
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: dol.
One letter away
- odd
- ole
- eld
- oud
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 972 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.