tardy

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, tardy sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

6hardy, tarry

• adjectiveafter the expected or usual time; delayed

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t aa1 r d iy0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

5 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• foolhardy
• hardy
• pardi
• pardy
• pardee

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.

• hardy
• tarry
• lardy
• tarty
• pardy
• tardo

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts T8,747
• Starts TA1,150
• Ends Y
• 5 letters starting T

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.