small
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, small sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1malls
- One letter away
- 6shall, smell
What it means
- adjectivelimited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
- adjectiverelatively moderate, limited, or small
- adjective(of children and animals) young, immature
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s m 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
One other word use exactly these letters: malls.
One letter away
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.