canal

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, canal sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the second

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

2banal, cabal

• noun(astronomy) an indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels; they are now believed to be an optical illusion
• nouna bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
• nounlong and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k ah0 n ae1 l — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.

14 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• corral
• gal
• locale
• morale
• pal
• rationale
• shall
• al
• chaparral
• chorale
• pascal
• sal
• bal
• dal

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.

• banal
• cabal

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts C16,229
• Starts CA3,002
• Ends L
• 5 letters starting C

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.