pall
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, pall sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 20ball, call
What it means
- nouna sudden numbing dread
- nounburial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
- nounhanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p aa1 l — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
19 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- aerosol
- alcohol
- banal
- doll
- loll
- protocol
- atoll
- cabal
- drywall
- methanol
- moll
- reinstall
- sol
- caul
- dahl
- dol
- hydrosol
- minimill
- nidal
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
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.