false

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

3fleas, leafs

One letter away

1valse

• adjectivenot in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality
• adjectivearising from error
• adjectiveerroneous and usually accidental

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as f ao1 l s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

3 other words use exactly these letters: fleas, leafs, alefs.

The whole set on one page.

• valse

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts F6,767
• Starts FA1,015
• Ends E
• 5 letters starting F

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.