ruler

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

1lurer

One letter away

4ruder, ruled

• nouna person who rules or commands
• nounmeasuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r uw1 l er0 — 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.

• cooler
• preschooler

One other word use exactly these letters: lurer.

• ruder
• ruled
• rules
• puler

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts R10,159
• Starts RU514
• Ends R
• 5 letters starting R

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.