ether

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

2there, three

One letter away

2other, ither

• nounthe fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies
• nounany of a class of organic compounds that have two hydrocarbon groups linked by an oxygen atom
• nouna medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as iy1 th er0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

2 other words use exactly these letters: there, three.

The whole set on one page.

• other
• ither

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts E7,067
• Starts ET243
• 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.