idle
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, idle sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 4deli, lied
- One letter away
- 2idly, isle
What it means
- adjectivenot in action or at work
- adjectivewithout a basis in reason or fact
- adjectivenot in active use
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ay1 d ah0 l — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
11 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
4 other words use exactly these letters: deli, lied, deil, diel.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.