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Five-letter words ending in AL

123 words, number 2 of 285 two-letter endings

Every five-letter word in ENABLE (a public-domain Scrabble-style list, not any game’s answer list) that ends in AL, slurs removed, common words first. 39 of the 123 are common in English dictionaries (the SCOWL grade), which says nothing about any puzzle’s answer. The letter just before AL is most often RAL (16), TAL (13), NAL (11).

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123 of 123 words shown

Common 39 words, in SCOWL’s small dictionary sizes (35 or less)

  • appal
  • aural
  • banal
  • canal
  • coral
  • equal
  • fatal
  • final
  • focal
  • ideal
  • legal
  • local
  • loyal
  • medal
  • metal
  • modal
  • moral
  • mural
  • nasal
  • naval
  • octal
  • papal
  • pedal
  • penal
  • petal
  • regal
  • rival
  • royal
  • rural
  • shoal
  • steal
  • tidal
  • tonal
  • total
  • trial
  • usual
  • viral
  • vital
  • vocal

Everyday 19 words, SCOWL sizes 40-50

  • axial
  • basal
  • cabal
  • decal
  • ducal
  • fecal
  • feral
  • fetal
  • natal
  • nodal
  • offal
  • phial
  • pupal
  • renal
  • sepal
  • sisal
  • venal
  • wheal
  • zonal

Less common 32 words, SCOWL sizes 55-70

  • algal
  • annal
  • areal
  • argal
  • binal
  • bubal
  • cecal
  • copal
  • craal
  • dedal
  • fugal
  • goral
  • gyral
  • hamal
  • hemal
  • horal
  • ileal
  • jacal
  • jugal
  • jural
  • kraal
  • molal
  • nival
  • ratal
  • riyal
  • skoal
  • sural
  • tical
  • tubal
  • typal
  • urial
  • vagal

Rare 33 words, SCOWL sizes 80-95, or not in SCOWL

  • artal
  • arval
  • boral
  • comal
  • coxal
  • domal
  • dotal
  • dural
  • gayal
  • glial
  • graal
  • hadal
  • ilial
  • joual
  • loral
  • nidal
  • nopal
  • notal
  • pibal
  • pical
  • pipal
  • rugal
  • salal
  • seral
  • setal
  • sheal
  • tamal
  • tepal
  • ureal
  • uveal
  • vasal
  • vinal
  • zoeal

0 inflected forms: no word ending in AL is a plural or an -s, -es or -ed form under the rule on the word-list index, because that rule only ever catches words ending in S or D.