tempt

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

4tempo, temps

• verbdispose or incline or entice to
• verbprovoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion
• verbgive rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t eh1 m p t — 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.

• attempt
• contempt
• exempt
• preempt
• unkempt

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

• tempo
• temps
• kempt
• tempi

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts T8,747
• Starts TE1,375
• Ends T
• 5 letters starting T

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.