alarm

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the second

Anagrams

1malar

One letter away

1alary

• nounfear resulting from the awareness of danger
• nouna device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event
• nounan automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ah0 l aa1 r m — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.

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

• arm
• charm
• disarm
• farm
• firearm
• forearm
• harm
• gendarme
• rearm
• underarm
• nonfarm
• unarm

One other word use exactly these letters: malar.

• alary

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts A10,456
• Starts AL969
• Ends M
• 5 letters starting A

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.