mixer

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

2remix, mirex

One letter away

8miner, miser

• nouna party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity
• nounclub soda or fruit juice used to mix with alcohol
• nounelectronic equipment that mixes two or more input signals to give a single output signal

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as m ih1 k s 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.

• elixir
• fixer

2 other words use exactly these letters: remix, mirex.

• miner
• miser
• mixed
• mixes
• fixer
• miler
• miter
• mimer

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts M9,628
• Starts MI2,629
• Ends R
• 5 letters starting M

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.