inept

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the second

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

2inert, inapt

• adjectivenot elegant or graceful in expression
• adjectivegenerally incompetent and ineffectual
• adjectiverevealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ih2 n eh1 p t — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.

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

• accept
• adept
• crept
• except
• intercept
• kept
• leaped
• leapt
• overslept
• overstepped
• sidestepped
• slept
• stepped
• swept
• wept
• precept
• prepped
• sept
• windswept

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

• inert
• inapt

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts I6,978
• Starts IN4,513
• Ends T
• 5 letters starting I

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.