words
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, words sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1sword
- One letter away
- 12cords, fords
What it means
- nounthe words that are spoken
- nounthe text of a popular song or musical-comedy number
- nounlanguage that is spoken or written
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as w er1 d z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
18 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- birds
- bluebirds
- crosswords
- curds
- herds
- hummingbirds
- keywords
- passwords
- thirds
- watchwords
- firebirds
- girds
- nerds
- snowbirds
- songbirds
- kingbirds
- sunbirds
- thunderbirds
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: sword.
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.