heels
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, heels sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 11feels, heals
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and heels is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is heel — the bottom of a shoe or boot; the back part of a shoe or boot that touches the ground and provides elevation. 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 hh 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
- eels
- feels
- heals
- ideals
- keels
- meals
- ordeals
- peels
- reels
- repeals
- reveals
- seals
- squeals
- steals
- steels
- wheels
- audiophiles
- bookmobiles
- newsreels
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
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.