wasps

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

1swaps

One letter away

7gasps, rasps

Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and wasps is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is wasp — social or solitary hymenopterans typically having a slender body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk and having a formidable sting. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as w aa1 s p s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

One other word use exactly these letters: swaps.

The whole set on one page.

• gasps
• rasps
• warps
• wisps
• hasps
• waspy
• wasts

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts W3,694
• Starts WA1,007
• Ends S
• 5 letters starting W

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.