proud
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, proud 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
- 0none in this dictionary
What it means
- adjectivefeeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride
- adjectivehaving or displaying great dignity or nobility
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p r aw1 d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
21 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- allowed
- aloud
- avowed
- bowed
- cloud
- cowed
- crowd
- disallowed
- disavowed
- endowed
- loud
- plowed
- shroud
- sowed
- vowed
- wowed
- enshroud
- overcrowd
- browed
- stroud
- ploughed
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
No word in this dictionary differs from it by exactly one letter.
Same length, one position changed.
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.