steal
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, steal sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 9least, slate
- One letter away
- 5steak, steam
What it means
- nounan advantageous purchase
- nouna stolen base; an instance in which a base runner advances safely during the delivery of a pitch (without the help of a hit or walk or passed ball or wild pitch)
- verbtake without the owner's consent
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s t iy1 l — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
54 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- appeal
- automobile
- cartwheel
- conceal
- congeal
- cornmeal
- deal
- eel
- feel
- heal
- heel
- ideal
- keel
- kneel
- meal
- oatmeal
- ordeal
- peal
- peel
- piecemeal
- real
- reel
- repeal
- reveal
Its letters, rearranged
9 other words use exactly these letters: least, slate, stale, tales, teals, tesla, setal, stela, taels.
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.