yard
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, yard sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1dray
- One letter away
- 14bard, card
What it means
- nouna unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
- nounthe enclosed land around a house or other building
- nouna tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as y aa1 r d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
50 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bard
- barnyard
- barred
- bodyguard
- bombard
- boulevard
- card
- charred
- courtyard
- discard
- disregard
- graveyard
- guard
- hard
- jarred
- lard
- leotard
- lifeguard
- marred
- postcard
- regard
- retard
- safeguard
- scarred
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: dray.
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.