apple

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

2appel, pepla

One letter away

2ample, apply

• nounfruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh
• nounnative Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits

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

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

• chapel
• grapple
• pineapple
• appel

2 other words use exactly these letters: appel, pepla.

• ample
• apply

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts A10,456
• Starts AP678
• Ends E
• 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.