nasal

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

2alans, anlas

One letter away

4naval, basal

• adjectiveof or in or relating to the nose
• adjectivesounding as if the nose were pinched
• nouna consonant produced through the nose with the mouth closed

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as n ey1 z ah0 l — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• appraisal
• hazel
• reappraisal

2 other words use exactly these letters: alans, anlas.

• naval
• basal
• natal
• vasal

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts N4,392
• Starts NA530
• Ends L
• 5 letters starting N

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.