sloth
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, sloth sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1holts
- One letter away
- 4cloth, slosh
What it means
- nouna disinclination to work or exert yourself
- nounany of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits
- nounapathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s l ow1 th — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
8 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: holts.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.
Lists it belongs to
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.