idol

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, idol sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

2lido, diol

One letter away

1idyl

• nouna material effigy that is worshipped
• nounsomeone who is adored blindly and excessively
• nounan ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ay1 d ah0 l — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

11 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• bridal
• bridle
• homicidal
• idle
• sidle
• suicidal
• tidal
• genocidal
• idyll
• intertidal
• seidel

2 other words use exactly these letters: lido, diol.

• idyl

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts I6,978
• Starts ID172
• Ends L
• 4 letters starting I

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.