outer

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

2route, outre

One letter away

7cuter, muter

• adjectivebeing on the outside or further from a center
• adjectivelocated outside
• adjectivebeing on or toward the outside of the body

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as aw1 t er0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• doubter
• pouter
• scouter
• powter

2 other words use exactly these letters: route, outre.

The whole set on one page.

• cuter
• muter
• otter
• outed
• oater
• ofter
• oxter

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts O5,843
• Starts OU1,342
• 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.