close

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

2coles, socle

One letter away

4chose, clone

• adjectiveat or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other
• adjectiveclose in relevance or relationship
• adjectivenot far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k l ow1 s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• cellulose
• diagnose
• dose
• engross
• glucose
• grandiose
• gross
• morose
• overdose
• adios
• adipose
• bellicose
• centavos
• comatose
• fructose
• grosz
• nitrocellulose
• otiose
• arkose
• bowse

2 other words use exactly these letters: coles, socle.

• chose
• clone
• clove
• cloze

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts C16,229
• Starts CL963
• Ends E
• 5 letters starting C

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.