boil
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, boil 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
- 10bail, bowl
What it means
- nouna painful sore with a hard core filled with pus
- nounthe temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level
- verbcome to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b oy1 l — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
19 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- broil
- coil
- foil
- gargoyle
- oil
- recoil
- soil
- spoil
- toil
- turmoil
- airfoil
- embroil
- hoyle
- hydrofoil
- parboil
- roil
- subsoil
- topsoil
- uncoil
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.