paled
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, paled sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3pedal, plead
- One letter away
- 19baled, haled
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and paled is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is pal — a close friend who accompanies their buddies in their activities. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p ey1 l d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
28 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- assailed
- availed
- bailed
- blackmailed
- curtailed
- derailed
- detailed
- entailed
- exhaled
- failed
- hailed
- impaled
- inhaled
- jailed
- mailed
- nailed
- prevailed
- railed
- regaled
- retailed
- sailed
- scaled
- tailed
- trailed
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: pedal, plead, padle.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 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.