nil
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, nil sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1lin
- One letter away
- 10ail, nip
What it means
- nouna quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as n ih1 l — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
68 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- anthill
- bill
- chill
- daffodil
- dill
- distill
- downhill
- drill
- fill
- foothill
- frill
- fulfill
- gill
- goodwill
- grill
- grille
- hill
- ill
- instill
- kill
- mill
- overkill
- pill
- quill
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: lin.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 1% of the 972 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.