bail
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, bail sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 17bait, ball
What it means
- noun(criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial
- nounthe legal system that allows an accused person to be temporarily released from custody (usually on condition that a sum of money guarantees their appearance at trial)
- verbrelease after a security has been paid
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b ey1 l — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
88 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ail
- airmail
- ale
- assail
- avail
- 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 4 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.