rude
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, rude sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2rued, dure
- One letter away
- 12dude, nude
What it means
- adjectivesocially incorrect in behavior
- adjective(of persons) lacking in refinement or grace
- adjectivelacking civility or good manners
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r uw1 d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
93 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- accrued
- allude
- altitude
- amplitude
- aptitude
- attitude
- barbecued
- blued
- booed
- brewed
- brood
- canoed
- chewed
- clued
- conclude
- construed
- cooed
- crude
- cued
- debuted
- delude
- dude
- elude
- ensued
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: rued, dure.
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.