other

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

1throe

One letter away

4ether, otter

• adjectivenot the same one or ones already mentioned or implied; quantifier, other
• adjectiverecently past
• adjectivebelonging to the distant past

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ah1 dh er0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• another
• brother
• godmother
• grandmother
• mother
• smother
• stepmother
• nother
• souther

One other word use exactly these letters: throe.

• ether
• otter
• ocher
• ither

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts O5,843
• Starts OT66
• Ends R
• 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.