owl
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, owl sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1low
- One letter away
- 4oil, owe
What it means
- nounnocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as aw1 l — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
11 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: low.
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.