the

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, the sits in the everyday tier.

Letters
3972 words share the length
Syllables
1no marked stress
Anagrams
2eth, het
One letter away
8she, tee

What it means

Open English WordNet has no entry for the and no lemma one regular ending away from it. It is in the word list and in the size-ranked tiers, which is all this site knows about it. No definition is invented here.

How it sounds

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as dh ah0 — one syllable, no syllable marked for primary stress.

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

Its letters, rearranged

2 other words use exactly these letters: eth, het.

One letter away

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 972 words this long are a neighbour.

Lists it belongs to

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.