nail
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, nail sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2lain, anil
- One letter away
- 14bail, fail
What it means
- nounhorny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits
- nouna thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener
- nouna former unit of length for cloth equal to 1/16 of a yard
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as n 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
2 other words use exactly these letters: lain, anil.
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.