golf

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, golf sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

1flog

One letter away

5gold, goof

• nouna game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes
• verbplay golf

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as g aa1 l f — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

One other word use exactly these letters: flog.

The whole set on one page.

• gold
• goof
• gulf
• wolf
• rolf

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

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts G5,589
• Starts GO607
• Ends F
• 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.