oasis

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

3stress on the second

Anagrams

1ossia

One letter away

3basis, oases

• nouna fertile tract in a desert (where the water table approaches the surface)
• nouna shelter serving as a place of safety or sanctuary

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ow0 ey1 s ih0 s — 3 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.

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

• subspaces

One other word use exactly these letters: ossia.

• basis
• oases
• oasts

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts O5,843
• Starts OA49
• Ends S
• 5 letters starting O

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.