whole
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, whole 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
- 6whale, while
What it means
- adjectiveincluding all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete
- adjective(of siblings) having the same parents
- adjectivenot injured or harmed
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as hh ow1 l — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
64 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bowl
- buttonhole
- cajole
- casserole
- charcoal
- coal
- control
- dole
- droll
- enroll
- extol
- flagpole
- foal
- goal
- hole
- keyhole
- knoll
- loophole
- manhole
- mole
- parole
- patrol
- payroll
- pigeonhole
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
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.