duels

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

4slued, dulse

One letter away

4duets, dulls

Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and duels is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is duel — a prearranged fight with deadly weapons by two people (accompanied by seconds) in order to settle a quarrel over a point of honor. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as d uw1 ah0 l z — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• fuels
• homosexuals
• jewels
• renewals
• spirituals
• accruals
• duals

4 other words use exactly these letters: slued, dulse, ludes, leuds.

• duets
• dulls
• fuels
• duals

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts D10,149
• Starts DU502
• Ends S
• 5 letters starting D

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.