noise

The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, noise sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

1eosin

One letter away

4noisy, noose

• nounsound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound)
• nounthe auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience
• nounelectrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as n oy1 z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• alloys
• annoys
• boys
• convoys
• cowboys
• destroys
• employs
• enjoys
• joys
• ploys
• poise
• schoolboys
• toys
• busboys
• deploys
• homeboys

One other word use exactly these letters: eosin.

• noisy
• noose
• poise
• hoise

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts N4,392
• Starts NO2,132
• Ends E
• 5 letters starting N

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.