impel
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, impel sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 1imped
What it means
- verburge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate
- verbcause to move forward with force
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ih2 m p eh1 l — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
88 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- befell
- bell
- bluebell
- cartel
- cell
- clientele
- compel
- decibel
- dispel
- dumbbell
- dwell
- excel
- expel
- farewell
- fell
- foretell
- gazelle
- gel
- hell
- hotel
- infidel
- jell
- lapel
- misspell
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- imped
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.