anvil
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, anvil sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2nival, vinal
- One letter away
- 0none in this dictionary
What it means
- nouna heavy block of iron or steel on which hot metals are shaped by hammering
- nouna small bone in the middle ear between the malleus and the stapes
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ae1 n v ah0 l — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: nival, vinal.
One letter away
No word in this dictionary differs from it by exactly one letter.
Same length, one position changed.
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.