under

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

1nuder

One letter away

3udder, ender

• adjectivelocated below or beneath something else
• adjectivelower in rank, power, or authority
• adverbdown to defeat, death, or ruin

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ah1 n d er0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• blunder
• plunder
• thunder
• wonder
• asunder
• sunder

One other word use exactly these letters: nuder.

The whole set on one page.

• udder
• ender
• undee

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts U5,070
• Starts UN3,856
• Ends R
• 5 letters starting U

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.