swell
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, swell sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1wells
- One letter away
- 6dwell, shell
What it means
- adjectiveexcellent
- nounthe undulating movement of the surface of the open sea
- nouna rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s w eh1 l — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
88 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- befell
- bell
- bluebell
- cartel
- cell
- clientele
- compel
- decibel
- dispel
- dumbbell
- dwell
- excel
- expel
- farewell
- fell
- foretell
- gazelle
- gel
- hell
- hotel
- impel
- infidel
- jell
- lapel
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: wells.
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.