spade
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, spade sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1spaed
- One letter away
- 9shade, space
What it means
- nouna playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it
- nouna sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot
- verbdig (up) with a spade
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s p ey1 d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
128 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- accolade
- afraid
- aid
- aide
- allayed
- arcade
- arrayed
- barricade
- bayed
- betrayed
- blade
- blockade
- braid
- bridesmaid
- brigade
- brocade
- buffeted
- cascade
- conveyed
- crocheted
- crusade
- decade
- decayed
- degrade
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: spaed.
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.