peril

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

1plier

One letter away

1peris

• nouna source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
• nouna state of danger involving risk
• nouna venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p eh1 r ah0 l — 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.

• imperil
• sterile
• beryl
• feral

One other word use exactly these letters: plier.

• peris

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts P14,566
• Starts PE1,928
• Ends L
• 5 letters starting P

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.