avail
The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, avail sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 0none in this dictionary
What it means
- nouna means of serving
- verbtake advantage of
- verbbe of use to, be useful to
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ah0 v ey1 l — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
88 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ail
- airmail
- ale
- assail
- bail
- bale
- blackmail
- cocktail
- curtail
- derail
- detail
- entail
- exhale
- fail
- female
- fingernail
- flail
- frail
- gale
- hail
- hale
- handrail
- impale
- inhale
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
No word in this dictionary differs from it by exactly one letter.
Same length, one position changed.
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.