drool
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, drool sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1dolor
- One letter away
- 2droll, droop
What it means
- nounpretentious or silly talk or writing
- nounsaliva spilling from the mouth
- verbbe envious, desirous, eager for, or extremely happy about something
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as d r uw1 l — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
29 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- cool
- fool
- ghoul
- minuscule
- molecule
- mule
- overrule
- pool
- ridicule
- rule
- school
- spool
- stool
- tool
- vestibule
- whirlpool
- carpool
- cesspool
- joule
- misrule
- preschool
- retool
- uncool
- virgule
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: dolor.
One letter away
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.