panel

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, panel sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

3penal, plane

One letter away

2panes, paned

• nounsheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something
• nouna committee appointed to judge a competition
• noun(law) a group of people summoned for jury service (from whom a jury will be chosen)

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p ae1 n ah0 l — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• annul
• channel
• flannel
• impanel
• annal
• empanel

3 other words use exactly these letters: penal, plane, plena.

The whole set on one page.

• panes
• paned

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts P14,566
• Starts PA2,370
• Ends L
• 5 letters starting P

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.