ethos

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

2those, shote

One letter away

1echos

• noun(anthropology) the distinctive spirit of a culture or an era

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as iy1 th aa0 s — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

2 other words use exactly these letters: those, shote.

The whole set on one page.

• echos

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts E7,067
• Starts ET243
• 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.