torch

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

1rotch

One letter away

4porch, touch

• nouna light usually carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance
• nountall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches
• nouna small portable battery-powered electric lamp

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t ao1 r ch — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• blowtorch
• porch
• scorch

One other word use exactly these letters: rotch.

• porch
• touch
• torah
• torcs

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts T8,747
• Starts TO1,119
• Ends H
• 5 letters starting T

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.