viola

The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, viola sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

3stress on the second

Anagrams

1voila

One letter away

2villa, viols

• nounany of the numerous plants of the genus Viola
• nouna bowed stringed instrument slightly larger than a violin, tuned a fifth lower

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as v ay0 ow1 l ah0 — 3 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.

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

• granola
• ayatollah
• bola
• canola
• cola
• cupola
• payola
• mola
• sola

One other word use exactly these letters: voila.

• villa
• viols

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts V2,735
• Starts VI863
• Ends A
• 5 letters starting V

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.