elves

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

2eaves, elver

• nounan acronym for emissions of light and very low frequency perturbations due to electromagnetic pulse sources; extremely bright extremely short (less than a msec) electrical flashes forming a huge ring (up to 400 km diameter) in the ionosphere

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

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

• delves
• ourselves
• selves
• shelves
• themselves
• yourselves
• bookshelves
• theirselves

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.

• eaves
• elver

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts E7,067
• Starts EL571
• Ends S
• 5 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.