lotus

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

2louts, tolus

One letter away

3locus, lotas

• nounnative to eastern Asia; widely cultivated for its large pink or white flowers
• nounwhite Egyptian lotus: water lily of Egypt to southeastern Africa; held sacred by the Egyptians

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l ow1 t ah0 s — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• notice

2 other words use exactly these letters: louts, tolus.

• locus
• lotas
• lotos

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts L5,055
• Starts LO936
• Ends S
• 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.