arson

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

2roans, sonar

One letter away

1argon

• nounmalicious burning to destroy property

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as aa1 r s ah0 n — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• parson

2 other words use exactly these letters: roans, sonar.

• argon

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts A10,456
• Starts AR891
• Ends N
• 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.