coral
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, coral sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2carol, claro
- One letter away
- 8moral, boral
What it means
- adjectiveof a strong pink to yellowish-pink color
- nouna variable color averaging a deep pink
- nounthe hard stony skeleton of a Mediterranean coral that has a delicate red or pink color and is used for jewelry
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k ao1 r ah0 l — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
16 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: carol, claro.
One letter away
- moral
- boral
- comal
- copal
- coxal
- goral
- horal
- loral
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 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.