forge

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

1gofer

One letter away

5force, forgo

• nounfurnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping
• nouna workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering
• verbcreate by hammering

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

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

• gorge
• disgorge

One other word use exactly these letters: gofer.

• force
• forgo
• forte
• gorge
• forme

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts F6,767
• Starts FO1,320
• 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.