bawl
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, bawl sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1blaw
- One letter away
- 8bail, ball
What it means
- verbshout loudly and without restraint
- verbmake a raucous noise
- verbcry loudly
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b ao1 l — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
84 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- all
- appall
- ball
- baseball
- basketball
- befall
- brawl
- call
- catcall
- cholesterol
- crawl
- downfall
- drawl
- eyeball
- fall
- football
- forestall
- gall
- hall
- haul
- install
- mall
- maul
- mothball
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: blaw.
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.