adopt

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, adopt sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the second

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

2adapt, adept

• verbchoose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans
• verbtake up and practice as one's own
• verbtake on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ah0 d aa1 p t — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.

16 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• chopped
• copped
• cropped
• dropped
• flopped
• hopped
• lopped
• mopped
• opt
• plopped
• popped
• propped
• shopped
• stopped
• swapped
• topped

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.

• adapt
• adept

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts A10,456
• Starts AD656
• Ends T
• 5 letters starting A

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.