aspen

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

6napes, panes

One letter away

3ashen, asper

• nounany of several trees of the genus Populus having leaves on flattened stalks so that they flutter in the lightest wind

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ae1 s p ah0 n — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

6 other words use exactly these letters: napes, panes, neaps, peans, sneap, spean.

The whole set on one page.

• ashen
• asper
• arpen

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts A10,456
• Starts AS679
• Ends N
• 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.