after

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

4alter, apter

• adjectivelocated farther aft
• adverbhappening at a time subsequent to a reference time
• adverbbehind or in the rear

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ae1 f t er0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• hereafter
• laughter
• rafter
• thereafter
• drafter

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

• alter
• apter
• aster
• ofter

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts A10,456
• Starts AF231
• Ends R
• 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.