bugle

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

1bulge

One letter away

3bogle, butle

• nouna brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfares
• nounany of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover
• nouna tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for decoration

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b y uw1 g ah0 l — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• frugal
• centrifugal
• kugel

One other word use exactly these letters: bulge.

The whole set on one page.

• bogle
• butle
• fugle

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts B9,279
• Starts BU1,085
• Ends E
• 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.