quill
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, quill sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 2quell, quilt
What it means
- nounpen made from a bird's feather
- nouna stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog
- nounany of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k w ih1 l — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
68 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- anthill
- bill
- chill
- daffodil
- dill
- distill
- downhill
- drill
- fill
- foothill
- frill
- fulfill
- gill
- goodwill
- grill
- grille
- hill
- ill
- instill
- kill
- mill
- nil
- overkill
- pill
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
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.