broil

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, broil sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

1brail

• nouncooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill)
• verbcook under a broiler
• verbheat by a natural force

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b r 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.

• boil
• coil
• foil
• gargoyle
• oil
• recoil
• soil
• spoil
• toil
• turmoil
• airfoil
• embroil
• hoyle
• hydrofoil
• parboil
• roil
• subsoil
• topsoil
• uncoil

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.

• brail

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts B9,279
• Starts BR1,260
• Ends L
• 5 letters starting B

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.