coal

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, coal sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

3cola, calo

One letter away

7coat, coax

• nounfossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period
• nouna hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering
• verbburn to charcoal

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k 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.

• bowl
• buttonhole
• cajole
• casserole
• charcoal
• control
• dole
• droll
• enroll
• extol
• flagpole
• foal
• goal
• hole
• keyhole
• knoll
• loophole
• manhole
• mole
• parole
• patrol
• payroll
• pigeonhole
• pole

3 other words use exactly these letters: cola, calo, loca.

• coat
• coax
• coil
• cool
• foal
• goal
• cowl

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts C16,229
• Starts CO6,432
• Ends L
• 4 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.