bile
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, bile 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
- 18bale, bide
What it means
- nouna digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b ay1 l — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
48 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- aisle
- awhile
- beguile
- compile
- crocodile
- erstwhile
- exile
- file
- gentile
- guile
- isle
- lifestyle
- meanwhile
- mercantile
- mile
- pile
- profile
- reconcile
- revile
- rile
- senile
- smile
- stockpile
- style
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.