modal

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

2dolma, domal

One letter away

5medal, model

• adjectiverelating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution
• adjectiveof or relating to a musical mode; especially written in an ecclesiastical mode
• adjectiverelating to or expressing the mood of a verb

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as m ow1 d ah0 l — 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.

• yodel
• bimodal
• intermodal

2 other words use exactly these letters: dolma, domal.

• medal
• model
• moral
• nodal
• molal

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts M9,628
• Starts MO1,707
• Ends L
• 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.