gorge

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

1grego

One letter away

4forge, gouge

• nouna deep ravine (usually with a river running through it)
• nouna narrow pass (especially one between mountains)
• nounthe passage between the pharynx and the stomach

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as g ao1 r jh — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• forge
• disgorge

One other word use exactly these letters: grego.

• forge
• gouge
• gorse
• gurge

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts G5,589
• Starts GO607
• 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.