papal
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, papal sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1appal
- One letter away
- 4papas, pupal
What it means
- adjectiveproceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p ey1 p ah0 l — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
2 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
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Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: appal.
One letter away
- papas
- pupal
- pipal
- papaw
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.