arch

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, arch sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

1char

One letter away

2arcs, arco

• adjective(used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension
• adjectivenaughtily or annoyingly playful
• nouna curved shape in the vertical plane that spans an opening

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as aa1 r ch — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• cornstarch
• march
• parch
• starch
• larch
• demarche

One other word use exactly these letters: char.

The whole set on one page.

• arcs
• arco

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts A10,456
• Starts AR891
• Ends H
• 4 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.