pilot

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

3pivot, picot

• nounsomeone who is licensed to operate an aircraft in flight
• nouna person qualified to guide ships through difficult waters going into or out of a harbor
• nouna program exemplifying a contemplated series; intended to attract sponsors

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p ay1 l ah0 t — 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.

• autopilot
• eyelet

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.

• pivot
• picot
• pinot

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts P14,566
• Starts PI1,092
• Ends T
• 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.