scalp

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, scalp sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

2claps, clasp

One letter away

8scald, scale

• nounthe skin that covers the top of the head
• verbsell illegally, as on the black market
• verbremove the scalp of

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s k ae1 l p — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

2 other words use exactly these letters: claps, clasp.

The whole set on one page.

• scald
• scale
• scaly
• scamp
• scarp
• scall
• scaup
• sculp

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts S18,988
• Starts SC1,427
• Ends P
• 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.