gal
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, gal sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1lag
- One letter away
- 18gab, gag
What it means
- nounUnited States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters
- nouna unit of gravitational acceleration equal to one centimeter per second per second (named after Galileo)
- nounalliterative term for girl (or woman)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as g ae1 l — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
14 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: lag.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 2% 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.