squad
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, squad sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1quads
- One letter away
- 4squat, squid
What it means
- nouna smallest army unit
- nouna cooperative unit (especially in sports)
- nouna small squad of policemen trained to deal with a particular kind of crime
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s k w aa1 d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
30 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- cod
- facade
- god
- nod
- odd
- plod
- pod
- prod
- ramrod
- rod
- shod
- slipshod
- sod
- tightwad
- tripod
- trod
- wad
- arthropod
- cephalopod
- esplanade
- goldenrod
- quad
- roughshod
- scrod
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: quads.
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.