squid
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, squid sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1quids
- One letter away
- 3squad, squib
What it means
- noun(Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food
- nounwidely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s k w ih1 d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
26 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- amid
- bid
- debited
- did
- eyelid
- forbid
- grid
- hid
- id
- kid
- lid
- outdid
- overdid
- redid
- rid
- skid
- slid
- undid
- grandkid
- katydid
- mid
- outbid
- quid
- rebid
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: quids.
One letter away
- squad
- squib
- equid
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.