penal
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, penal sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3panel, plane
- One letter away
- 4pedal, petal
What it means
- adjectiveof or relating to punishment
- adjectiveserving as or designed to impose punishment
- adjective(of an act or offense) subject to punishment by law
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p iy1 n ah0 l — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
4 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- adrenal
- duodenal
- renal
- venal
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: panel, plane, plena.
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.