alto

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, alto sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

2lota, tola

One letter away

3also, auto

• adjectiveof or being the lowest female voice
• adjectiveof or being the highest male voice; having a range above that of tenor
• adjective(of a musical instrument) second highest member of a group

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ae1 l t ow0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

2 other words use exactly these letters: lota, tola.

• also
• auto
• alts

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts A10,456
• Starts AL969
• Ends O
• 4 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.