death

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

1hated

One letter away

4depth, heath

• nounthe event of dying or departure from life
• nounthe permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism
• nounthe absence of life or state of being dead

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as d eh1 th — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• breath
• beth
• megadeath
• meth
• shibboleth
• daleth
• heth

One other word use exactly these letters: hated.

The whole set on one page.

• depth
• heath
• neath
• deash

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts D10,149
• Starts DE3,753
• Ends H
• 5 letters starting D

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.