bulb

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, bulb sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

1blub

One letter away

2bulk, bull

• nouna modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure
• nounelectric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity
• nouna rounded part of a cylindrical instrument (usually at one end)

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b ah1 l b — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• lightbulb

One other word use exactly these letters: blub.

• bulk
• bull

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

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts B9,279
• Starts BU1,085
• Ends B
• 4 letters starting B

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.