male
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, male sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3lame, meal
- One letter away
- 26bale, gale
What it means
- adjectivebeing the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation
- adjectivecharacteristic of a man
- adjectivefor or pertaining to or composed of men or boys
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as m ey1 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.
- ail
- airmail
- ale
- assail
- avail
- bail
- bale
- blackmail
- cocktail
- curtail
- derail
- detail
- entail
- exhale
- fail
- female
- fingernail
- flail
- frail
- gale
- hail
- hale
- handrail
- impale
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: lame, meal, alme.
One letter away
- bale
- gale
- hale
- mace
- made
- make
- mall
- malt
- mane
- mare
- mate
- maze
- mile
- mole
- mule
- pale
- sale
- tale
- dale
- kale
- mage
- vale
- wale
- mabe
- malm
- rale
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.