angle

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

2angel, glean

One letter away

6ankle, anele

• nounthe space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians
• nouna biased way of looking at or presenting something
• verbmove or proceed at an angle

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ae1 ng g ah0 l — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• dangle
• disentangle
• entangle
• jangle
• mangle
• spangle
• strangle
• tangle
• triangle
• untangle
• wrangle
• bangle
• wangle

2 other words use exactly these letters: angel, glean.

The whole set on one page.

• ankle
• anele
• anile
• anole
• ingle
• argle

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts A10,456
• Starts AN1,965
• Ends E
• 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.