gel
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, gel sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1leg
- One letter away
- 15eel, gal
What it means
- nouna colloid in a more solid form than a sol
- nounjellylike substance used in hair styling
- nouna thin translucent membrane used over stage lights for color effects
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as jh eh1 l — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
88 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- befell
- bell
- bluebell
- cartel
- cell
- clientele
- compel
- decibel
- dispel
- dumbbell
- dwell
- excel
- expel
- farewell
- fell
- foretell
- gazelle
- hell
- hotel
- impel
- infidel
- jell
- lapel
- misspell
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: leg.
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.