pool
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, pool sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2loop, polo
- One letter away
- 12cool, fool
What it means
- nounan excavation that is (usually) filled with water
- nouna small lake
- nounan organization of people or resources that can be shared
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p uw1 l — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
29 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- cool
- drool
- fool
- ghoul
- minuscule
- molecule
- mule
- overrule
- ridicule
- rule
- school
- spool
- stool
- tool
- vestibule
- whirlpool
- carpool
- cesspool
- joule
- misrule
- preschool
- retool
- uncool
- virgule
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: loop, polo.
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.