altos

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

2lotas, tolas

One letter away

1autos

Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and altos is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is alto — of or being the lowest female voice. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.

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

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

2 other words use exactly these letters: lotas, tolas.

• autos

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 S
• 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.