keel
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, keel sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2leek, leke
- One letter away
- 13feel, heel
What it means
- nouna projection or ridge that suggests a keel
- nounthe median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly
- nounone of the main longitudinal beams (or plates) of the hull of a vessel; can extend vertically into the water to provide lateral stability
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k iy1 l — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
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
- ideal
- kneel
- meal
- oatmeal
- ordeal
- peal
- peel
- piecemeal
- real
- reel
- repeal
- reveal
- seal
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: leek, leke.
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.