larva

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

1arval

One letter away

0none in this dictionary

• nounthe immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l aa1 r v ah0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

One other word use exactly these letters: arval.

No word in this dictionary differs from it by exactly one letter.

Same length, one position changed.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts L5,055
• Starts LA1,354
• Ends A
• 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.