eel
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, eel sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1lee
- One letter away
- 8gel, del
What it means
- nounthe fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled
- nounvoracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as iy1 l — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
54 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- appeal
- automobile
- cartwheel
- conceal
- congeal
- cornmeal
- deal
- feel
- heal
- heel
- ideal
- keel
- kneel
- meal
- oatmeal
- ordeal
- peal
- peel
- piecemeal
- real
- reel
- repeal
- reveal
- seal
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: lee.
One letter away
- gel
- del
- ell
- mel
- tel
- bel
- cel
- sel
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 972 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.