melon

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

1lemon

One letter away

3felon, meson

• nounany of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh
• nounany of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons, watermelons, cantaloupes, cucumbers

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as m eh1 l ah0 n — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• felon
• watermelon
• muskmelon
• pelon

One other word use exactly these letters: lemon.

The whole set on one page.

• felon
• meson
• pelon

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts M9,628
• Starts ME1,628
• Ends N
• 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.