olive

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

1voile

One letter away

2alive, ogive

• adjectiveof a yellow-green color similar to that of an unripe olive
• nounsmall ovoid fruit of the European olive tree; important food and source of oil
• nounevergreen tree cultivated in the Mediterranean region since antiquity and now elsewhere; has edible shiny black fruits

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as aa1 l ah0 v — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

One other word use exactly these letters: voile.

• alive
• ogive

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts O5,843
• Starts OL125
• Ends E
• 5 letters starting O

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.