total

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, total sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

3tonal, dotal

• adjectiveconstituting the full quantity or extent; complete
• adjectivecomplete in extent or degree and in every particular
• nounthe whole amount

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

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

• anecdotal
• motile
• immotile

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.

• tonal
• dotal
• notal

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 L
• 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.