lager

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

4glare, large

One letter away

20eager, lamer

• nouna camp defended by a circular formation of wagons
• nouna general term for beer made with bottom fermenting yeast (usually by decoction mashing); originally it was brewed in March or April and matured until September

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l aa1 g er0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• jogger
• logger

4 other words use exactly these letters: glare, large, regal, argle.

The whole set on one page.

• eager
• lamer
• laser
• later
• laxer
• layer
• pager
• sager
• wager
• leger
• luger
• cager
• gager
• jager
• lacer
• lader
• laker
• laver
• liger
• yager

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts L5,055
• Starts LA1,354
• Ends R
• 5 letters starting L

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.