leash

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

5hales, heals

One letter away

4leach, lease

• nounrestraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal
• nounthe cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
• nouna figurative restraint

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l iy1 sh — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• pastiche
• quiche
• unleash

5 other words use exactly these letters: hales, heals, shale, selah, sheal.

The whole set on one page.

• leach
• lease
• least
• deash

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts L5,055
• Starts LE901
• Ends H
• 5 letters starting L

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.