bell
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, bell sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 16ball, belt
What it means
- nouna hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
- nouna push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed
- nounthe sound of a bell being struck
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b eh1 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.
- befell
- bluebell
- cartel
- cell
- clientele
- compel
- decibel
- dispel
- dumbbell
- dwell
- excel
- expel
- farewell
- fell
- foretell
- gazelle
- gel
- hell
- hotel
- impel
- infidel
- jell
- lapel
- misspell
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.