alpha

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, alpha 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

1aloha

• adjectivefirst in order of importance
• adjectiveearly testing stage of a software or hardware product
• nounthe 1st letter of the Greek alphabet

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ae1 l f ah0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• alfalfa
• alfa

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

• aloha

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts A10,456
• Starts AL969
• Ends A
• 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.