evil
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, evil sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3live, veil
- One letter away
- 0none in this dictionary
What it means
- adjectivemorally bad or wrong
- adjectivehaving the nature of vice
- adjectivehaving or exerting a malignant influence
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as iy1 v ah0 l — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
5 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- medieval
- primeval
- retrieval
- upheaval
- weevil
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: live, veil, vile.
One letter away
No word in this dictionary differs from it by exactly one letter.
Same length, one position changed.
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.