smile
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, smile sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3limes, miles
- One letter away
- 3smite, stile
What it means
- nouna facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement
- verbchange one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure
- verbexpress with a smile
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s m ay1 l — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
48 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- aisle
- awhile
- beguile
- bile
- compile
- crocodile
- erstwhile
- exile
- file
- gentile
- guile
- isle
- lifestyle
- meanwhile
- mercantile
- mile
- pile
- profile
- reconcile
- revile
- rile
- senile
- stockpile
- style
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: limes, miles, slime.
One letter away
- smite
- stile
- spile
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.