else

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, else sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

3eels, lees

One letter away

1ease

Open English WordNet has no entry for else and no lemma one regular ending away from it. It is in the word list and in the size-ranked tiers, which is all this site knows about it. No definition is invented here.

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as eh1 l s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

3 other words use exactly these letters: eels, lees, seel.

The whole set on one page.

• ease

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

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts E7,067
• Starts EL571
• Ends E
• 4 letters starting E

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.