halos

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

1shoal

One letter away

5hales, halls

Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and halos is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is halo — an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as hh ey1 l ow0 z — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

One other word use exactly these letters: shoal.

The whole set on one page.

• hales
• halls
• halts
• halms
• helos

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts H6,303
• Starts HA1,538
• Ends S
• 5 letters starting H

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.