drama

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

1damar

One letter away

2drams, grama

• nouna dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage
• nounan episode that is turbulent or highly emotional
• nounthe literary genre of works intended for the theater

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as d r aa1 m ah0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• comma
• llama
• mama
• melodrama
• gama
• lama
• mamma
• pajama
• momma

One other word use exactly these letters: damar.

• drams
• grama

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts D10,149
• Starts DR703
• Ends A
• 5 letters starting D

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.