tufts

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

4tofts, tufas

Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and tufts is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is tuft — a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t ah1 f t s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

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

• tofts
• tufas
• tuffs
• tufty

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts T8,747
• Starts TU578
• Ends S
• 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.