pale
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, pale sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3leap, peal
- One letter away
- 27bale, gale
What it means
- adjectivevery light colored; highly diluted with white
- adjective(of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
- adjectivelacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p 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: leap, peal, plea.
One letter away
- bale
- gale
- hale
- male
- pace
- page
- pall
- palm
- pals
- pane
- pare
- pate
- pave
- pile
- pole
- sale
- tale
- dale
- kale
- pele
- pule
- vale
- wale
- palp
- paly
- pase
- 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.