elder

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

5older, alder

• adjectiveused of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son
• nouna person who is older than you are
• nounany of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical Northern Hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as eh1 l d er0 — 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.

• welder
• gelder
• melder

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.

• older
• alder
• eider
• elver
• ender

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts E7,067
• Starts EL571
• Ends R
• 5 letters starting E

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.