bagel

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

3gable, belga

One letter away

1babel

• noun(Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b ey1 g ah0 l — 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.

• fenagle

3 other words use exactly these letters: gable, belga, gleba.

The whole set on one page.

• babel

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts B9,279
• Starts BA1,801
• Ends L
• 5 letters starting B

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.