steel
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, steel sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 5sleet, leets
- One letter away
- 6steal, steep
What it means
- nounan alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range
- nouna cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
- nounknife sharpener consisting of a ridged steel rod
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s t 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
- reel
- repeal
- reveal
Its letters, rearranged
5 other words use exactly these letters: sleet, leets, stele, teels, teles.
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.