maple

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

1ample

One letter away

2macle, maile

• nounwood of any of various maple trees; especially the hard close-grained wood of the sugar maple; used especially for furniture and flooring
• nounany of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as m ey1 p ah0 l — 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.

• papal
• staple

One other word use exactly these letters: ample.

The whole set on one page.

• macle
• maile

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts M9,628
• Starts MA2,347
• Ends E
• 5 letters starting M

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.