levee

The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, levee sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

2level, lever

• nouna formal reception of visitors or guests (as at a royal court)
• nouna pier that provides a landing place on a river
• nounan embankment that is built in order to prevent a river from overflowing

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l eh1 v iy0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• heavy
• levy
• bevy

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.

• level
• lever

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 E
• 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.