sofa

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, sofa sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

1oafs

One letter away

7soda, soft

• nounan upholstered seat for more than one person

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s ow1 f ah0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

One other word use exactly these letters: oafs.

The whole set on one page.

• soda
• soft
• sola
• soma
• sora
• soja
• soya

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts S18,988
• Starts SO1,226
• Ends A
• 4 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.