bulge

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

1bugle

One letter away

3budge, bilge

• nounsomething that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
• verbswell or protrude outwards
• verbbulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b ah1 l jh — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• divulge
• indulge

One other word use exactly these letters: bugle.

The whole set on one page.

• budge
• bilge
• bulgy

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.