metal

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, metal sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

4fetal, medal

• adjectivecontaining or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal
• nounany of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.
• nouna mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as m eh1 t ah0 l — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

8 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• kettle
• mettle
• nettle
• petal
• settle
• betel
• resettle
• unsettle

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.

• fetal
• medal
• petal
• setal

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts M9,628
• Starts ME1,628
• Ends L
• 5 letters starting M

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.