salty

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, salty sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

1slaty

One letter away

4sally, salts

• adjectiveengagingly stimulating or provocative
• adjectivecontaining or filled with salt
• adjectiveone of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s ao1 l t iy0 — 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.

• faulty

One other word use exactly these letters: slaty.

• sally
• salts
• malty
• silty

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts S18,988
• Starts SA1,569
• Ends Y
• 5 letters starting S

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.