rebel

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

5repel, revel

• nouna person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions)
• nounsomeone who exhibits great independence in thought and action
• verbtake part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r eh1 b ah0 l — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• pebble
• treble

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.

• repel
• revel
• jebel
• rebec
• refel

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts R10,159
• Starts RE6,681
• Ends L
• 5 letters starting R

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.