duel
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, duel sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2lude, leud
- One letter away
- 6dual, dues
What it means
- nouna prearranged fight with deadly weapons by two people (accompanied by seconds) in order to settle a quarrel over a point of honor
- nounany struggle between two skillful opponents (individuals or groups)
- verbfight a duel, as over one's honor or a woman
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: lude, leud.
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.