salve

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

6slave, laves

One letter away

5halve, solve

• nounsemisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation
• nounanything that remedies or heals or soothes
• verbsave from ruin, destruction, or harm

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s aa1 v — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

2 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• suave
• improv

6 other words use exactly these letters: slave, laves, vales, selva, valse, veals.

The whole set on one page.

• halve
• solve
• valve
• calve
• salvo

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts S18,988
• Starts SA1,569
• Ends E
• 5 letters starting S

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.