viral
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, viral sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1rival
- One letter away
- 2vital, vinal
What it means
- adjectiverelating to or caused by a virus
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as v ay1 r ah0 l — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
2 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- spiral
- antiviral
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: rival.
One letter away
- vital
- vinal
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.