apart

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the second

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

1aport

• adjectiveremote and separate physically or socially
• adjectivehaving characteristics not shared by others
• adverbseparated or at a distance in place or position or time

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

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

• art
• cart
• chart
• counterpart
• dart
• depart
• hart
• heart
• impart
• mart
• outsmart
• part
• restart
• smart
• start
• sweetheart
• tart
• upstart
• fart
• flowchart
• multipart
• oxcart
• rampart
• carte

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.

• aport

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts A10,456
• Starts AP678
• 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.