ideal
The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, ideal sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 1ailed
- One letter away
- 2ideas, ileal
What it means
- adjectiveconforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence; embodying an ideal
- adjectiveconstituting or existing only in the form of an idea or mental image or conception
- adjectiveof or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ay0 d iy1 l — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
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
- eel
- feel
- heal
- heel
- keel
- kneel
- meal
- oatmeal
- ordeal
- peal
- peel
- piecemeal
- real
- reel
- repeal
- reveal
- seal
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: ailed.
One letter away
- ideas
- ileal
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.