chute

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

1teuch

One letter away

1shute

• nounrescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall
• nounsloping channel through which things can descend
• verbjump from an airplane and descend with a parachute

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as sh uw1 t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• absolute
• acute
• astute
• attribute
• boot
• brute
• butte
• commute
• compute
• constitute
• cute
• destitute
• dilute
• dispute
• disrepute
• electrocute
• execute
• flute
• fruit
• grapefruit
• hoot
• institute
• jute
• lawsuit

One other word use exactly these letters: teuch.

• shute

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts C16,229
• Starts CH2,182
• Ends E
• 5 letters starting C

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.