pearl
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, pearl sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2paler, parle
- One letter away
- 2pears, peart
What it means
- nouna smooth lustrous round structure inside the shell of a clam or oyster; much valued as a jewel
- nouna shade of white the color of bleached bones
- nouna shape that is spherical and small
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p er1 l — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
17 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: paler, parle.
One letter away
- pears
- peart
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.