quail
The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, quail sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 1quais
What it means
- nounflesh of quail; suitable for roasting or broiling if young; otherwise must be braised
- nounsmall gallinaceous game birds
- verbdraw back, as with fear or pain
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k w ey1 l — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
88 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ail
- airmail
- ale
- assail
- avail
- bail
- bale
- blackmail
- cocktail
- curtail
- derail
- detail
- entail
- exhale
- fail
- female
- fingernail
- flail
- frail
- gale
- hail
- hale
- handrail
- impale
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- quais
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.