grasp

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, grasp sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

1sprag

One letter away

2grass, gramp

• noununderstanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something
• nounthe limit of capability
• nounan intellectual hold or understanding

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as g r ae1 s p — 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.

• clasp
• gasp
• rasp
• asp
• handclasp

One other word use exactly these letters: sprag.

• grass
• gramp

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts G5,589
• Starts GR1,318
• Ends P
• 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.