fiber

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

2brief, fibre

One letter away

9finer, fiver

• nouna slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn
• nouncoarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis
• nounany of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber)

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as f ay1 b er0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• subscriber
• transcriber
• prescriber
• scriber
• fibre

2 other words use exactly these letters: brief, fibre.

The whole set on one page.

• finer
• fiver
• fifer
• filer
• firer
• fixer
• giber
• jiber
• liber

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts F6,767
• Starts FI967
• Ends R
• 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.