tread
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, tread sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 5rated, trade
- One letter away
- 7bread, dread
What it means
- nouna step in walking or running
- nounthe grooved surface of a pneumatic tire
- nounthe part (as of a wheel or shoe) that makes contact with the ground
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t r eh1 d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
96 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- aforesaid
- ahead
- bed
- bedspread
- behead
- bled
- blockhead
- bloodshed
- bobsled
- bread
- bred
- copperhead
- dead
- deathbed
- dread
- embed
- fed
- figurehead
- fled
- gingerbread
- head
- homestead
- hotbed
- inbred
Its letters, rearranged
5 other words use exactly these letters: rated, trade, dater, tared, derat.
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.