5 Letters
3 Consonants
2 Vowels
1 Syllables
Types Of Speech
You can use dread as a noun or as a verb in a sentence.
About Dread
A 1 syllables noun and 5 letters with the letters a, d, e, and r, 3 consonants, 2 vowels and 1 syllables with the middle letter e. Dread starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters d, dr, dre, drea, and the ending characters are d, ad, ead, read, ..
Definition
Fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
Origin/Roots
Middle English
School Grade
Dread is set as a grade one word that starts with d, ends with d, 1 syllables, 2 vowels and 5 letters.
Scrabble
Is dread a scrabble word? A 7 point word in scrabble. Check the word games tab below for probability, odds and more.
Pig Latin
Dread in Pig Latin is said as "eaddray or eaddrway".
Unigram
d | r | e | a | d
Bigram
dr | re | ea | ad
Trigram
dre | rea | ead
Quadrigram
drea | read
Word Gram
Noun Examples
fearful expectation or anticipation;
"the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
Verb Examples
be afraid or scared of;
be frightened of;
"I fear the winters in Moscow";
"We should not fear the Communists!"

Synonyms (Cognitive Synonyms) For "Dread"

There are 288 synonyms available. These are cognitive relationship words which is to say they have a similar meaning, mean the same thing, or have close definition and relationship to dread.

SynonymDefinition
Abject Fear
Affrightcause fear in
"The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me"
Agitationthe act of agitating something
causing it to move around (usually vigorously)
Alarma device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event
Alarm System
All Overs
Amazinginspiring awe or admiration or wonder
"New York is an amazing city"
"the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight"
"the awesome complexity of the universe"
"this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath"- Melville
"We
Angstan acute but unspecific feeling of anxiety
usually reserved for philosophical anxiety about the world or about personal freedom
Anguishextreme mental distress
Annoyancethe act of troubling or annoying someone

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Anagrams

There are 2 anagrams from dread.

Anagram Definition
Addersmall terrestrial viper common in northern Eurasia
Dreadfearful expectation or anticipation
"the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"

View English words with the unique letters used in dread. Words With The Letters Ader

Derives

Dread derives from 4 words.

Word Definition
Apprehendget the meaning of something
"Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?"
Dreadfearful expectation or anticipation
"the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
Fearan emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
Quail At

Hypernyms

Dread has 3 hypernyms.

Word Definition
Fearan emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
Fearfulnessthe trait of being afraid
Frightan emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)

Hyponyms

There are 11 hyponyms for dread

Word Definition
Bodinga feeling of evil to come;
"a steadily escalating sense of foreboding";
"the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case"
Chillcoldness due to a cold environment
Forebodingan unfavorable omen
Glooma feeling of melancholy apprehension
Gloominessexcessive sadness and mournfulness
Pallhanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
Premonitionan early warning about a future event
Presentimenta feeling of evil to come;
"a steadily escalating sense of foreboding";
"the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case"
Sombernessa manner that is serious and solemn
Suspensean uncertain cognitive state;
"the matter remained in suspense for several years"

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Words To Word lists That The Word Dread Can Be Found In.

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TitleTypeDescription
Negative FeelingsDescribe dreadA word list of negative feeling words and the best English words to describe negative emotions. Emotional negative words... read more

The word games Words With Friends, 4pics1Word, Word Chums, and Jumble which is by far one of the most successful of the word games. Jumble was created in 1954 - below, you will find the most unscrambled letters for each descramble word game that others have solved or decoded to make the word dread.

Is dread a scrabble word or can you use dread in Words With Friends? The probability of getting this word in scrabble is 1 out of every 19364 games and in Words With Friends it's 1 out of every 13100 games. This 5 letter 7 point scrabble word can be rearranged 60 ways. What other words can be made with the letters a, d, e, and r? There's 77 with 7 letters or less with the letters a, d, e, and r. Here is a list of 25 to try to get you more points.

WordScrabbleWords With FriendsWord Chums4Pics1WordJumble
Tread (5 letters) 6 6 trade
Trade (5 letters) 6 6 trade
Reward (6 letters) 10 +3 10 +3 reward
Darter (6 letters) 7 7 aderrt
Adder (5 letters) 7 7 rdaed
Dasyure (7 letters) 11 +4 11 +4 dasyure
Wader (5 letters) 9 +2 9 +2 dewar
Ardea (5 letters) 6 6 aader
Drawers (7 letters) 11 +4 11 +4 dawresr
Dewar (5 letters) 9 +2 9 +2 dewar
Drawer (6 letters) 10 +3 10 +3 reward
Rau Sed (7 letters)
Retread (7 letters) 8 +1 8 +1 retread
Waders (6 letters) 10 +3 10 +3 seward
Address (7 letters) 9 +2 9 +2 address
Reader (6 letters) 7 7 reread
Read (4 letters) 5 5 dear
Dare (4 letters) 5 5 dear
Advert (6 letters) 10 +3 11 +4 advert
Dread (5 letters) 7 7 rdaed
Red Sea (7 letters)
Dear (4 letters) 5 5 dear
Dearest (7 letters) 8 +1 8 +1 dearest
Steward (7 letters) 11 +4 11 +4 steward
Deary (5 letters) 9 +2 8 +1 ready





     

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