ridge

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

2dirge, gride

One letter away

3midge, ridgy

• nouna long narrow natural elevation or striation
• nounany long raised strip
• nouna long narrow natural elevation on the floor of the ocean

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r ih1 jh — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• abridge
• bridge
• drawbridge
• fridge
• midge

2 other words use exactly these letters: dirge, gride.

The whole set on one page.

• midge
• ridgy
• fidge

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts R10,159
• Starts RI613
• Ends E
• 5 letters starting R

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.