wild
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, wild sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 10gild, mild
What it means
- adjectivemarked by extreme lack of restraint or control
- adjectivein a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated
- adjectivein a state of extreme emotion
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as w ay1 l d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
22 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- beguiled
- child
- compiled
- exiled
- filed
- grandchild
- mild
- piled
- profiled
- reconciled
- reviled
- riled
- smiled
- stockpiled
- styled
- tiled
- brainchild
- refiled
- restyled
- schoolchild
- stepchild
- unreconciled
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
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.