eels
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, eels sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3else, lees
- One letter away
- 9ells, gels
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and eels is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is eel — the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as iy1 l z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
30 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- appeals
- automobiles
- cartwheels
- conceals
- deals
- feels
- heals
- heels
- ideals
- keels
- meals
- ordeals
- peels
- reels
- repeals
- reveals
- seals
- squeals
- steals
- steels
- wheels
- audiophiles
- bookmobiles
- newsreels
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: else, lees, seel.
One letter away
- ells
- gels
- bels
- cels
- dels
- eely
- mels
- sels
- tels
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.