reel
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, reel sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1leer
- One letter away
- 13feel, heel
What it means
- nouna roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector
- nounmusic composed for dancing a reel
- nounwinder consisting of a revolving spool with a handle; attached to a fishing rod
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r iy1 l — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
54 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- appeal
- automobile
- cartwheel
- conceal
- congeal
- cornmeal
- deal
- eel
- feel
- heal
- heel
- ideal
- keel
- kneel
- meal
- oatmeal
- ordeal
- peal
- peel
- piecemeal
- real
- repeal
- reveal
- seal
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: leer.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.