bowl
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, bowl sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1blow
- One letter away
- 9bawl, boil
What it means
- nouna round vessel that is open at the top; used chiefly for holding grains or liquids
- nouna concave shape with an open top
- nouna dish that is round and open at the top for serving foods
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b ow1 l — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
64 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- buttonhole
- cajole
- casserole
- charcoal
- coal
- control
- dole
- droll
- enroll
- extol
- flagpole
- foal
- goal
- hole
- keyhole
- knoll
- loophole
- manhole
- mole
- parole
- patrol
- payroll
- pigeonhole
- pole
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: blow.
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.