foray

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, foray 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

5forty, moray

• nouna sudden short attack
• nounan initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence)
• verbsteal goods; take as spoils

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as f ao1 r ey0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• signore

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

• forty
• moray
• foram
• forby
• forky

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts F6,767
• Starts FO1,320
• Ends Y
• 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.