opted

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

2depot, toped

One letter away

1outed

Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and opted is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is opt — select as an alternative over another. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as aa1 p t ih0 d — 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.

• adopted

2 other words use exactly these letters: depot, toped.

The whole set on one page.

• outed

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts O5,843
• Starts OP334
• Ends D
• 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.