alter

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

5alert, later

One letter away

5after, altar

• verbcause to change; make different; cause a transformation
• verbbecome different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence
• verbmake an alteration to

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ao1 l t er0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• altar
• falter
• halter
• salter
• defaulter
• psalter

5 other words use exactly these letters: alert, later, artel, ratel, taler.

The whole set on one page.

• after
• altar
• apter
• alder
• aster

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 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.