amber

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

2bream, embar

One letter away

4ember, umber

• adjectiveof a medium to dark brownish yellow color
• nouna deep yellow color
• nouna hard yellowish to brownish translucent fossil resin; used for jewelry

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ae1 m b er0 — 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.

• clamber
• camber

2 other words use exactly these letters: bream, embar.

• ember
• umber
• omber
• ameer

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts A10,456
• Starts AM669
• 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.