spoil
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, spoil sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1polis
- One letter away
- 3spool, speil
What it means
- noun(usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war)
- nounthe act of spoiling something by causing damage to it
- nounthe act of stripping and taking by force
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s p oy1 l — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
19 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- boil
- broil
- coil
- foil
- gargoyle
- oil
- recoil
- soil
- toil
- turmoil
- airfoil
- embroil
- hoyle
- hydrofoil
- parboil
- roil
- subsoil
- topsoil
- uncoil
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: polis.
One letter away
- spool
- speil
- spail
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.