ankle
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, ankle 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
- 5angle, anele
What it means
- nouna gliding joint between the distal ends of the tibia and fibula and the proximal end of the talus
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ae1 ng k ah0 l — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
1 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- rankle
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- angle
- anele
- anile
- anole
- inkle
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.
Lists it belongs to
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.