farce

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

1facer

One letter away

4force, farci

• nouna comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
• nounmixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs
• verbfill with a stuffing while cooking

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as f aa1 r s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• parse
• sparse
• carse
• marse
• arse

One other word use exactly these letters: facer.

• force
• farci
• farcy
• farle

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts F6,767
• Starts FA1,015
• Ends E
• 5 letters starting F

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.