shaft

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

1hafts

One letter away

2shalt, shift

• nouna line that forms the length of an arrow pointer
• nounan aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
• nouna long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow)

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as sh ae1 f t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• aircraft
• autographed
• craft
• daft
• draft
• graft
• handicraft
• laughed
• overdraft
• photographed
• raft
• redraft
• spacecraft
• staffed
• telegraphed
• witchcraft
• aft
• antiaircraft
• camshaft
• choreographed
• crankshaft
• downdraft
• haft
• handcraft

One other word use exactly these letters: hafts.

• shalt
• shift

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts S18,988
• Starts SH1,459
• Ends T
• 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.