gruel

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

2luger, gluer

One letter away

2cruel, grues

• nouna thin porridge (usually oatmeal or cornmeal)

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as g r uw1 ih0 l — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

2 other words use exactly these letters: luger, gluer.

• cruel
• grues

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts G5,589
• Starts GR1,318
• Ends L
• 5 letters starting G

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.