gable
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, gable sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3bagel, belga
- One letter away
- 4cable, fable
What it means
- nounthe vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as g ey1 b ah0 l — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
16 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- able
- cable
- disable
- enable
- fable
- label
- stable
- table
- timetable
- turntable
- unable
- unstable
- mislabel
- relabel
- roundtable
- sable
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: bagel, belga, gleba.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 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.