oil
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, oil sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 6ail, nil
What it means
- nouna slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water
- nounoil paint containing pigment that is used by an artist
- nouna dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as oy1 l — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
19 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- boil
- broil
- coil
- foil
- gargoyle
- recoil
- soil
- spoil
- toil
- turmoil
- airfoil
- embroil
- hoyle
- hydrofoil
- parboil
- roil
- subsoil
- topsoil
- uncoil
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 3 letters.
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.