gala

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, gala sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

1alga

One letter away

6gale, gall

• nouna gay festivity

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as g ae1 l ah0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• ala
• calla

One other word use exactly these letters: alga.

• gale
• gall
• gals
• gaga
• gama
• tala

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts G5,589
• Starts GA1,112
• Ends A
• 4 letters starting G

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.