pound
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, pound sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 8bound, found
What it means
- noun16 ounces avoirdupois
- nounthe basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- nouna unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces troy
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p aw1 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.
- abound
- aground
- around
- astound
- background
- bound
- browned
- confound
- crowned
- downed
- drowned
- expound
- foreground
- found
- frowned
- greyhound
- ground
- hound
- impound
- mound
- outbound
- playground
- profound
- rebound
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
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.