hole
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, hole sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1helo
- One letter away
- 25dole, hale
What it means
- nounan opening into or through something
- nounan opening deliberately made in or through something
- nounone playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as hh ow1 l — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
64 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bowl
- buttonhole
- cajole
- casserole
- charcoal
- coal
- control
- dole
- droll
- enroll
- extol
- flagpole
- foal
- goal
- keyhole
- knoll
- loophole
- manhole
- mole
- parole
- patrol
- payroll
- pigeonhole
- pole
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: helo.
One letter away
- dole
- hale
- hold
- holy
- home
- hone
- hope
- hose
- hove
- mole
- pole
- role
- sole
- bole
- cole
- hoke
- hols
- holt
- howe
- tole
- vole
- holm
- holp
- holk
- jole
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.