regal

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, regal sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

4glare, lager

One letter away

3legal, renal

• adjectivebelonging to or befitting a supreme ruler

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r iy1 g ah0 l — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

7 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• beagle
• eagle
• illegal
• legal
• extralegal
• paralegal
• spiegel

4 other words use exactly these letters: glare, lager, large, argle.

The whole set on one page.

• legal
• renal
• rugal

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts R10,159
• Starts RE6,681
• Ends L
• 5 letters starting R

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.