whale
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, whale sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1wheal
- One letter away
- 3while, whole
What it means
- nouna very large person; impressive in size or qualities
- nounany of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head
- verbhunt for whales
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as w ey1 l — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
88 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ail
- airmail
- ale
- assail
- avail
- bail
- bale
- blackmail
- cocktail
- curtail
- derail
- detail
- entail
- exhale
- fail
- female
- fingernail
- flail
- frail
- gale
- hail
- hale
- handrail
- impale
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: wheal.
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.