soil
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, soil sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3oils, silo
- One letter away
- 9boil, coil
What it means
- nounanything regarded as making something unclean
- nounthe part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock
- nounmaterial in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s oy1 l — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
19 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- boil
- broil
- coil
- foil
- gargoyle
- oil
- recoil
- spoil
- toil
- turmoil
- airfoil
- embroil
- hoyle
- hydrofoil
- parboil
- roil
- subsoil
- topsoil
- uncoil
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: oils, silo, soli.
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.