plaza

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

1playa

• nouna public square with room for pedestrians
• nounmercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p l aa1 z ah0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.

• playa

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts P14,566
• Starts PL1,001
• Ends A
• 5 letters starting P

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.