sad
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, sad sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1ads
- One letter away
- 24bad, cad
What it means
- adjectiveexperiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness
- adjectiveof things that make you feel sad
- adjectivebad; unfortunate
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s ae1 d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
35 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ad
- add
- bad
- cad
- clad
- comrade
- dad
- fad
- glad
- had
- lad
- mad
- nomad
- pad
- plaid
- brad
- chad
- doodad
- dyad
- gad
- grad
- granddad
- ironclad
- keypad
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: ads.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 2% 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.