tide
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, tide sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 4diet, edit
- One letter away
- 15aide, bide
What it means
- nounthe periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon
- nounsomething that may increase or decrease (like the tides of the sea)
- nounthere are usually two high and two low tides each day
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t ay1 d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
217 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abide
- allied
- alongside
- amplified
- applied
- aside
- astride
- backside
- bedside
- belied
- beside
- bide
- bride
- broadside
- certified
- chide
- clarified
- classified
- cockeyed
- coincide
- collide
- complied
- confide
- countryside
Its letters, rearranged
4 other words use exactly these letters: diet, edit, tied, dite.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.