gauge

The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, gauge sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

2gauze, gouge

• nouna measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.
• nounaccepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared
• nounthe distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as g ey1 jh — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• age
• backstage
• cage
• disengage
• engage
• enrage
• offstage
• outrage
• page
• rage
• rampage
• sage
• stage
• teenage
• wage
• assuage
• downstage
• gage
• onstage
• upstage
• macrophage
• phage
• restage

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

• gauze
• gouge

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts G5,589
• Starts GA1,112
• Ends E
• 5 letters starting G

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.