via

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, via sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

3972 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

6vie, vim

Open English WordNet has no entry for via 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.

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as v ay1 ah0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• papaya
• jambalaya
• maya
• messiah
• pariah
• playa
• rupiah

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 3 letters.

• vie
• vim
• pia
• ria
• vig
• vis

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

• 3 letter words972
• Starts V2,735
• Starts VI863
• Ends A
• 3 letters starting V

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.