delta

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

2dealt, lated

One letter away

0none in this dictionary

• nouna low triangular area of alluvial deposits where a river divides before entering a larger body of water
• nounan object shaped like an equilateral triangle
• nounthe 4th letter of the Greek alphabet

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as d eh1 l t ah0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

2 other words use exactly these letters: dealt, lated.

The whole set on one page.

No word in this dictionary differs from it by exactly one letter.

Same length, one position changed.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts D10,149
• Starts DE3,753
• Ends A
• 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.