dual
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, dual sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2laud, auld
- One letter away
- 6deal, dial
What it means
- adjectiveconsisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs
- adjectivehaving more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities
- adjectivea grammatical number category referring to two items or units as opposed to one item (singular) or more than two items (plural)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as d uw1 ah0 l — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
13 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: laud, auld.
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.