shawl
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, shawl 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
- 5shall, shawn
What it means
- nouncloak consisting of an oblong piece of cloth used to cover the head and shoulders
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as sh ao1 l — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
84 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- all
- appall
- ball
- baseball
- basketball
- bawl
- befall
- brawl
- call
- catcall
- cholesterol
- crawl
- downfall
- drawl
- eyeball
- fall
- football
- forestall
- gall
- hall
- haul
- install
- mall
- maul
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- shall
- shawn
- shawm
- shaws
- shaul
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.