aloft

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the second

Anagrams

2float, flota

One letter away

0none in this dictionary

• adverbat or on or to the masthead or upper rigging of a ship
• adverbupward
• adverbat or to great height; high up in or into the air

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ah0 l ao1 f t — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.

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

• coughed
• loft
• scoffed
• croft
• hayloft
• oft

2 other words use exactly these letters: float, flota.

The whole set on one page.

No word in this dictionary differs from it by exactly one letter.

Same length, one position changed.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts A10,456
• Starts AL969
• Ends T
• 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.