wheel
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, wheel sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 3wheal, wheen
What it means
- nouna simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines)
- nouna handwheel that is used for steering
- nounforces that provide energy and direction
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as w 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
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- wheal
- wheen
- wheep
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.